Currently, any person who intends to obtain a llicense to generate electricity using new and renewable energy to submit a statement of opinion of Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) to the licensing authority as to the link condition of the power system thereof. However, an audit by the Board of Audit and Inspection has recently revealed that KEPCO employees have been taking bribes worth of tens of millions of won in money and valuables from new and renewable energy contractors for giving statements of opinion.

The current Act stipulates that an operator of electric transmission/distribution business shall enable other operators or users who directly purchase electric power to use electric installations without discrimination. Along with this provision, it is also necessary to prevent the harmful consequences of KEPCO’s information monopoly by enabling any person who intends to use electric installations to access information on the state of affairs concerning such installations.

Accordingly, the Amendment requires operators of electric transmission/distribution businesses to disclose information on such matters as the capacity and status of use of electric installations, thereby aiming to prevent KEPCO, an operator of electric transmission/distribution businesses, from monopolizing information on the link condition of electric power system (Article 20-2 and Article 103, subparagraph 2-2 newly inserted).

Obligate operators of electric transmission businesses or electric distribution businesses to disclose information on such matters as the capacity of electric installations and the status of use of operators of electric utility businesses (Article 20-2).