South-Korea to Invest $8.2B In Massive Offshore Wind Farms

Filed under: Lifestyle,News |

Image: Creative Commons You Don’t Need a Weatherman… If there’s one thing that South-Korea has a lot of, it’s coastlines. Offshore wind power is a great fit for the country, which is probably why the government and private companies have decided to invest 9.2 trillion won ($8.2 billion) in offshore wind farms. A 100 MW pilot wind farm is scheduled to come online by 2013, to be followed by a 900 MW one by 2016, and then an additional 1,500 MW of further capacity by 2019, for a total of 2,500 MW and 500 turbines (huge 5 MW ones!)… Read the full story on TreeHugger

View original post here:

South-Korea to Invest $8.2B In Massive Offshore Wind Farms

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...
Posted by on November 4, 2010. Filed under Lifestyle, News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

Leave a Reply