PVTIME – New data from South Korea’s Korea Energy Agency KEA, shared by Democratic Party of Korea lawmaker Park Jeong on Sunday, reveals concerns over the country’s solar power rollout. As of June this year, 252,197 solar projects had gained official approval, boasting a combined installed capacity of 56,636 megawatts. However, only 155,469 projects had been completed by June, leaving 96,728 unfinished and representing an incomplete rate of 38.3%. This means that just 61.7% of approved projects were operational.
The problem is particularly severe in North Jeolla Province, South Jeolla Province and South Chungcheong Province. North Jeolla has 51,748 approved sites, but only 33,460 have been built, leaving 18,288 unfinished projects. South Jeolla’s situation is even worse: of its 43,295 approved sites, 23,754 are unfinished, accounting for 16,495 megawatts and hindering local renewable energy output.
These figures highlight gaps in execution. As a key part of South Korea’s renewable energy strategy, this low completion rate risks slowing the transition to clean energy and missing targets, raising concerns in the market over the feasibility and efficiency of the plan’s implementation. No official details on the causes of the delays or follow-up measures have been released yet.
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