According to Yonhap News,

(Daejeon=Yonhap News) Reporter Kang Su-hwan = Korea Water Resources Corporation (K-water) announced on the 28th that it will expand its renewable energy facilities to a 10GW (gigawatt) scale by 2030.

The corporation made this decision after holding an executive meeting and conducting an emergency review of renewable energy projects in response to the recent global energy supply chain instability caused by the Middle East war and the upgrade of the resource security crisis to the "" level.

According to the corporation, renewable energy facilities (33.3GW) account for 21.7 percent of Korea's total power generation facilities (153.1GW).

Of these, the scale of renewable energy facilities operated by the corporation (1.44GW) reaches 4.3 percent, and including the Imha Dam floating solar power plant (47.2MW) completed last year, it is currently at a scale of 1.5GW.

The corporation's plan is to expand this scale to 10GW by 2030.

In particular, the corporation plans to enhance the flexibility and stability of power supply through floating solar power that utilizes idle water surfaces of dams and the linked operation of existing hydroelectric resources.

Following the example of using artificial intelligence (AI) water purification plant technology to improve the operational efficiency of 43 metropolitan water purification plants nationwide and saving approximately KRW 11.1 billion in operating costs, the corporation also plans to simultaneously promote improvements in water and energy efficiency.

A K-water official said, "Based on the potential of water, we will simultaneously promote the expansion of renewable energy and AI-based operational innovation to faithfully carry out the national tasks of energy transition and AI grand transformation."

swan@yna.co.kr



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Source: Yonhap News (April 28, 2026)

** This article was translated from Korean.