SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Yonhap) -- The total capacity of newly installed commercial solar panels in South Korea reached 3. 16 gigawatts in 2024, data showed Friday, exceeding the 3-GW level for the first time in three years. . The city will aim for the distribution of sunlight power plants to 1 million households, the establishment of solar plants at 100% of available public sites, the enhancement of the industrialization of solar power as the new driving force for growth, and the expansion of citizen participation. The figure marks a 9 percent increase from 2. 9 GW installed in 2023, according to the data compiled by the. . Solar power in South Korea has developed from small-scale research programs of the 1970s into a key component of the nation's renewable energy strategy. South Korea has expanded solar photovoltaics generation with tools and initiatives such as legal frameworks, feed-in tariffs, national basic. . Environment Minister Han Jeoung-ae examines a tidal power plant at Shihwa Lake in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, that is covered with building-integrated photovoltaic panels, December 2021. Newsis The Seoul Metropolitan Government has started accepting applicants for a subsidy for installing. . Seoul's metropolitan government plans to deploy 1 GW of solar photovoltaic power for residential and municipal buildings. By 2022, every public building and one million homes in the city are set to be solar-powered, thanks to the Solar City Seoul project. Following the Fukushima nuclear disaster of. .
