Candidate Eui-yong Eui-yong of the Foreign Minister is answering questions from lawmakers at a personnel hearing held at the Foreign and Transportation Affairs Committee of the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul on the morning of the 5th. News 1
It was revealed that a new and renewable energy company with the second son of the foreign minister candidate Eui-yong Eui-yong as the head of the corporation was signed exclusively as a’Seoul Virtual Power Plant Operator’ for consecutive years in 2019 and 2020, and made about 38 million won in the name of commission.
According to the office of Congressman Ji Seong-ho on the 7th,’Enel X Korea’, a subsidiary of’Enel Green Power’, a new and renewable energy company headquartered in Italy, signed an exclusive agreement with the Seoul city for a virtual power plant operator for two years from 2019. did.
Enel Green Power is a company where Jeong Mo, 46, the second son of Candidate Jung, has been working since 2008 and has been the head of Enel X Korea since last year.
Enel-X Korea was selected as a virtual power plant operator by supporting both agreements with Seoul independently without any competitors. This is in contrast to the competition between KT, Korea Entec, and Enernac Korea in 2017. Regarding this, the Seoul Metropolitan Government said, “It was signed an agreement by only supporting Enel X Korea among the demand management providers for the contest.” He said, “The commission for Enel X Korea during the two agreement periods is 38,173,722 won.”
The’virtual power plant’, in which small and medium-sized buildings participate in electricity saving, is the city’s key energy project. This is a principle of subsidizing financial costs by reducing power consumption instead of operating expensive generators during peak times when the load increases due to increased electricity use. It means running a virtual power plant that saves electricity instead of running an expensive generator.
Regarding this, Congressman Ji Seong-ho said, “It is necessary to transparently disclose whether contract-related projects have been carried out fairly.”
An official from Seoul explained, “It was selected by Enel X Korea alone, but there was no special benefit.”
Meanwhile, the company is also where Jeong worked as a research assistant intern during his career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Chung entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with 34 foreign affairs examinations in 2000 and quit the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in July 2008. It is 7 years and 11 months of experience in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but the actual working period is only 3 years. This is because he served in the military for three years and left state-funded overseas training to Harvard University after the discharge. During his master’s studies, Chung worked as an intern at the company. After the training was over, I joined the company.
Regarding the point that it is not in accordance with the public service ethics to retire from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately after obtaining a degree and retire from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately after obtaining a degree while studying under government funding, Candidate Chung said at a personnel hearing on the 5th. “It was true,” he said. “I received research funding from the school and worked at other non-profit organizations (NGOs) through it to write a report on climate change.” He said, “Because I was a married child who had already become an adult, I couldn’t be a parent who overcomes the decision. I personally wanted my son to build a career in this (diplomat) field,” he said.
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