Wind Energy programme of Korea for reducing greenhouse gases under Renewable Energy Act.

초록

Korea has a variety of favorable conditions for utilizing wind as energy. First of all, as a geographical characteristic, it is a peninsular country with its three frontiers surrounded by sea. such a location makes the country influenced, all the year round, both by sea winds and by seasonal winds, so that it has a good possibility of putting its rich wind resources to use as an wind energy source. Particularly, in view of the results of observations and analysis of actual data about wind sources, it is quite possible to install wind turbine in many regions across the country. it was since 1998, when the Law on the Promotion of Alternative Energy Development was enacted, that research and development activities for employing the wind energy as a part of energy source have got into full swing. At that moment, however, due to the low level of domestic technological development, such efforts were mainly focused on the attainment of basic technologies with regard to wind turbine. Therefore, recognizing that wind, as a clean energy source, can be a promising method for coping with the International Climate Treaty and for replacing the fossil fuel, oil, this essay investigates the status of technological development in Korea and presents an appropriate model for the development of the wind turbine system that can compete with other energy sources, under respects of new and renewable energies act.