Site Development of Offshore Wind Power in Korea : Comparison between Jeju, Buan, and Ulsan

Abstract

Background and Objective Background of This ResearchTotal installation capacity of wind power plants in South Korea reaches 174MW in 2007. According to the installation plan of Korea Institute of Energy Research and Core research center of wind power, the total capacity is expected to rise into 1,404MW. Although there are several advantages in the wind power such as clean energy, substitution of imported fossil energy, and spill-over effects, there are various kinds of disadvantages including noise, disturbance of ecosystem, transformation of landscape, and etc. Especially, many of large wind power plans have been constructed in the mountainous areas, which may cause big impacts on the ecosystem as well as natural landscape. In the future, the number of wind power plants which will be built in the mountainous sites will increase considerably. Therefore, we need to investigate the possible impacts of wind power constructions on the economic as well as environmental aspects.

Fiscal Policy Instruments and Green Development

“…This study offers recommendations by conducting an in-depth analysis of the achievements and challenges of this policy. Literature on the ROK energy transition policy is limited to the estimation of changes in the power supply cost by energy transition (KEEI 2017;Jang 2018;Cho et al 2019;Choi et al, 2020), the ROK people's willingness to pay for energy transition (Jang 2017;Lee, Lee, and Yoo 2017;GESI 2018;KEEI 2020b;, and the impact of energy transition on the national economy (Kim and Seo, 2019;Hong et al 2019;Kim and Jeon 2020). Therefore, this study fills the gap in the literature by providing policy recommendations based on a performance analysis of the ROK energy transition policy.…”