A collection of 2021 entries of licenses for large-scale energy projects (above 2 MW) issued by the Korean Electricity Regulatory Commission from April 2001 to December 2022. It includes project details such as technology type, total MW capacity, location, and approval date. The data was compiled from official Korean-language PDFs, translated to English, and manually reviewed for quality.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in total MW capacity by technology type (e.g., biomass, solar, wind) over the 2001-2022 period.
- Map project locations to study regional investment patterns in the Korean electricity sector.
- Examine the project development period relative to the date of approval for different technology categories.
- Identify the frequency and stated reason for resubmitting an existing license across different companies.
Strengths
- Complete list of 2021 licenses issued by KOREC from April 2001 to December 2022.
- Manual quality review of 116 entries (approximately 17% of the dataset) confirmed consistency of numerical values and key categories like technology types.
- Includes standardized categories such as technology type and license status to enable systematic analysis.
Limitations
- Contains minor spelling errors in translated Korean names, addresses, and company names, as identified in the manual review.
- The dataset excludes minor technologies such as tidal power and battery technologies, focusing only on major categories.
Provenance
- Source
- Korean Electricity Regulatory Commission (KOREC) website.
- Collection Method
- Downloaded from official PDFs, translated using Deepl Pro and Adobe Pro APIs, merged into an Excel file, and manually reviewed.
- Time Range
- April 2001 to December 2022.
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- South Korea.