SK Eternix introduced on Dec. 22 that it has commenced business operation of Chungju Eco Park, a gasoline cell energy plant constructed within the Chungju Megalopolis Common Industrial Complicated in Chungju Metropolis, North Chungcheong Province.
Chungju Eco Park is a high-efficiency stable oxide gasoline cell (SOFC) energy plant with a facility capability of 40MW. It’s the largest scale in Korea primarily based on the only SOFC mannequin that SK Eternix focuses on, with a challenge price of 271 billion received invested.
Chungju Eco Park makes use of 120 models of 330kW-class gasoline cells, that are Bloom Power’s ES 6.5 mannequin, and may produce roughly 330 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electrical energy yearly. That is sufficient electrical energy for roughly 94,000 households to make use of for one 12 months.
With the graduation of this business operation, SK Eternix will now function gasoline cell energy crops with a cumulative capability of 129MW, following Cheongju (20MW), Eumseong (20MW), Chilgok (20MW), Yakmok (9MW), and Boeun (20MW).
Together with this, Daesowon Eco Park (40MW), positioned close to Chungju Eco Park, can be scheduled to enter business operation within the first half of subsequent 12 months, and Paju Eco Inexperienced Power with a capability of 31MW is presently getting ready for business operation.
Kim Hae-jung, CEO of SK Eternix, mentioned, “The business operation of Chungju Eco Park is a case that when once more proves the gasoline cell enterprise capabilities and execution energy that the corporate has been selling,” including, “We are going to proceed to contribute to enhancing vitality self-sufficiency and making a regional win-win eco-friendly vitality ecosystem by the growth of distributed energy provide.”
In the meantime, SK Eternix possesses numerous renewable vitality portfolios together with solar energy, wind energy, ESS, and gasoline cells, and is increasing its enterprise areas to energy brokerage and U.S. ESS.
