South Korea’s floating ambition

Every summer, millions flock to a festival in the city of Boryeong, 200 km south of Seoul. The community offers visitors the chance to strip down and cake themselves in mud from the local tidal flats – a key geographic feature of the Korean Peninsula’s west coast. Another 50 km to the south lies the Saemangeum Seawall – the world’s longest manmade sea dyke, and the planned site of a massive 2.1 GW, state-backed floating PV installation.

Issue 04-2020

PV installation on the Gongam Reservoir in South Korea. The country has plans to construct a 2.1 GW floating installation on tidal flats near the town of Saemangeum. If realized, this project would roughly equal the entire world’s current floating solar capacity.

Image: Hanwha Q Cells

Stay informed

pv magazine is the leading trade media platform covering the global solar photovoltaics industry. Log in or purchase a digital or print version of this issue to read this article in full.
Purchase a Subscription
Lost Password?