Announcement of ‘119 new energy technology development tasks’ in the first half of ’21
Focused investment on’core technology’ to realize the Green New Deal and carbon neutrality
Spreading technology development achievements and continuing efforts for safe R&D
[국토일보 조성구 기자] The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (Minister Sung Yun-mo) announced 119 new energy technology development tasks in the first half of 2021. KRW 195.4 billion (including 58 safety management projects) will be invested in 119 projects in a total of 24 projects, including energy supply-demand technology, and infrastructure.
This year’s energy technology development project focused on technically supporting the realization of the Green New Deal and carbon neutrality, strengthening the connection between technology development and demand and market, and further strengthening safety management for R&D projects.
Last year, the Ministry of Industry invested 950 billion won (including supplementary budget) in energy technology development to strengthen the competitiveness of new and renewable energy, increase energy consumption efficiency through convergence technology, strengthen system reliability, and cultivate manpower ▲ commercialization of floating solar power ▲ hydrogen Localization of core parts of charging stations ▲The development of an ultra-fast electric vehicle charging system was achieved.
In addition, to foster new business models through technology convergence and revitalize the ecosystem of the new energy industry, the’Strategy to Support Energy Innovative Enterprises’ was prepared. In September, the paradigm shift of the energy industry, the capabilities and potential of companies, and the direction of government policy were discussed In consideration of this, six promising fields were selected and three support strategies were established.
A system for safe R&D was also established, such as designating tasks that require more thorough safety management as’safety management tasks’ and establishing energy safety PDs.
However, as new energy policy agendas such as the Green New Deal and carbon neutrality emerged this year, the need for technical support increased, and R&D performances such as strengthening the linkage between technology development and demand and market could lead to purchases of demanding companies. We collected opinions that there is a need for improvement to be made.
In addition, the need to further strengthen project safety management to respond to the increasing trend of large-scale demonstration tasks and prevent safety accidents such as fires has also increased. Accordingly, the number of new empirical projects in the first half of the year will increase from 22 projects last year and 47.1 billion won to 48 this year, 92.4 billion won.
■ Direction of energy technology development in 2021
The Ministry of Industry and Industry plans to invest KRW 1,133.6 billion in energy technology development in 2021, up 19.1% from the previous year, of which KRW 214.2 billion will be invested in new projects in the first half.
The direction of energy technology development in 2021 is to focus on investments in related core technologies such as renewable energy and hydrogen to technically support the Green New Deal and the realization of carbon neutrality.
To this end, 56 new projects related to the Green New Deal and carbon neutrality, such as new and renewable energy, demand management, and greenhouse gas reduction, will be promoted in the first half of the year, and investments in hydrogen and fuel cells will also be significantly expanded to revitalize the hydrogen economy.
New and renewable energy (31) projects 59.9 billion won, demand management (17) projects 45 billion won, greenhouse gas reduction (8 projects) new 21 billion won investment, hydrogen and fuel cell technology development from 82.2 billion won. It increased by more than 50% to 125.7 billion won.
In addition, it plans to continuously discover and plan new tasks to promote the low carbon of the energy supply structure and the efficiency of the energy consumption structure.
Expand the linkage between technology development and demand/market so that R&D results can lead to the purchase of demanding companies and creation of new markets.
To this end, the’Public Energy Lead Investment’ project (4.8 billion won in ’21) was newly established to create a new market through cooperation and investment of public enterprises, and public enterprises participated in RFP by discovering tasks (17 cases) that require participation by public enterprises. Made it mandatory. Of the 17 tasks, 10 will be announced in the first half and seven will be announced in the second half.
To ensure that R&D results can lead to purchases by public companies, we plan to lay the institutional foundation for revitalizing demand-linked R&D, and to reinforce connection with follow-up projects such as demonstration and pilot projects after R&D.
In particular, we will expand investment in technology development for energy safety and further strengthen safety management in the entire R&D process.
To this end, investments in energy safety will be expanded, such as new initiatives to improve the safety of hydrogen charging stations and ESS. It will invest 30.2 billion won in energy safety technology development.
It is planned to further strengthen the safety management of tasks by adding procedures for safety review such as prior review by experts and verification of safety management items of energy safety PD. The number of safety management tasks will be expanded to 58 in the first half of this year.
Actively support the vitalization of the local energy industry ecosystem and expand the foundation for continuous technological innovation. To this end, we plan to revitalize the energy industry convergence complex by designating an’energy-specialized company’, establishing an institutional basis for effective support, and linking with various support projects.
Among the companies in the fusion complex, energy-specialized companies, which are companies with more than 50% of sales related to the energy industry, receive benefits such as reduction in local taxes, preferential treatment for local investment subsidies, and additional points for R&D by the Ministry of Industry.
It plans to promote support for energy innovative companies without any problems through commercialization R&D support, revitalization of private investment attraction, energy company status survey, and energy industry classification system improvement. It will invest 4.67 billion won this year to foster small and technologically innovative energy companies.
In addition, through the’Graduate School of Energy Convergence’, we will actively cultivate experts who will support the realization of the Green New Deal and carbon neutrality, and strengthen strategic international cooperation to secure new technologies and advance into overseas markets. In the first half of the year, 3 additional graduate schools for energy convergence will be designated with a cost of KRW 45.28 billion to foster energy manpower.
Detailed information regarding this announcement can be found on the website of the Ministry of Industry (www.motie.go.kr) and the website of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation (www.ketep.re.kr).
After receiving the project plan in March-April, the project operator is determined through selection evaluation, and funding is planned through an agreement by May.
In addition, we plan to hold a business briefing on February 5 (Fri) online (YouTube) to inform the contents of the announcement, how to apply for assignments, and future schedules.
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