DNV to support KEPCO in devising offshore grid plan

DNV said on Thursday it has secured a project to help KEPCO (Korea Electric Power Corporation) Research Institute develop a long-term offshore power grid plan.

The Norway-based assurance provider is acting as technical advisor in the project, which is expected to be completed by the middle of 2025. It will develop a conceptual design and routing plan for the integration of large-scale offshore wind to the grid.

In 2021, South Korea’s government unveiled plans for an 8.2-GW offshore wind complex expected to require an investment of KRW 48.5 trillion (USD 37bn/EUR 34.9bn) and to be completed in 2030. Work on its grid integration should be undertaken simultaneously, DNV said.

It will support KEPCO in its ambition to deliver power from offshore wind in the southwestern coast of the country to demand centres in the capital of Seoul.

Yang Byeong Mo, DNV’s project manager, remarked that it had taken a year of discussion with KEPCO to define and secure the work on the KEPCO HVDC Research project.

(KRW 1 = USD 0.001/EUR 0.001)

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