Hankook Tire Expands Renewable Energy Adoption to Build Global Green Production Hub
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Hankook Tire & Technology announced plans to build a self-consumption solar power facility at its Geumsan plant in Geumsan-gun, South Chungcheong Province.
The facility will have a capacity of about 5 MW and will be installed on the rooftops of the raw materials building and the finished goods warehouse.
The facility is expected to produce about 6.66 GWh of renewable energy annually, with an expected reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of about 3061 tCO₂.
Hankook Tire & Technology announced plans to build a self-consumption solar power facility at its Geumsan plant in Geumsan-gun, South Chungcheong Province. The Geumsan plant will be upgraded into a green energy production hub.
The facility will have a capacity of about 5 MW and will be installed on the rooftops of the raw materials building and the finished goods warehouse at the Geumsan plant, which was newly built in 2025. The solar installation on the raw materials building will have a capacity of 2,692 kW, while the solar installation on the finished goods warehouse will have a capacity of 2,377 kW, securing a total generation capacity of about 5 MW.
The facility is expected to produce about 6.66 GWh of renewable energy annually through a self-consumption model. This is expected to reduce annual greenhouse gas emissions by about 3061 tCO₂.
The project was launched after Hankook Tire was selected for the Korea Environment Corporation's "Carbon-Neutral Facility Support Project for Emissions Trading Scheme Allocated Companies." Hankook Tire said it plans to continue expanding its transition to renewable energy and will keep working toward achieving Net-Zero by 2050.
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Source: TECHWORLD · Lee Gwang-jae
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=406487
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