Jeonbuk Southwest Expansion Complex 1 (Buan)
An 800 MW offshore wind zone in the waters off Buan county, North Jeolla (Jeonbuk), covering about 126 square kilometres.
Status
Proposedlifecycle stage
Ownership
KHKorea Hydro & Nuclear Power ◆
Location
South KoreaTechnology
Capacity
800 MW ◆
Turbines
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Foundation
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Site & conditions
Site rights
Not established we have not found a document granting or refusing rights over this seabed — a gap in our research, not a finding about the project ∅
Revenue & grid
Offtake
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Grid
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Schedule
FID
Not taken
COD · developer
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Delivery outlook not forecast
We don't put a delivery estimate on this project yet. No authority has granted rights to this site, so there is nothing to date a schedule from. That changes the moment the seabed is awarded, a consent application is filed, or the project is named in an auction.
Revenue & offtake route to market — open
No offtake secured — route to market open
The routes describe what exists in this market — not a prediction of which the project will take.
Next visible round · from the auction calendar
South Korea 2026 H2 Offshore Wind Auction ◇
MCEE's ten-year roadmap (2026-06-30) schedules 1.7-3.0 GW for 2026 H2 — fixed 1.3-2.0 GW, floating 0.4-1.0 GW. No 공고 date published as of 2026-08-26; the ministry began collecting military-operability consultation requests for H2 bidders from April 2026.
Installation how the build is going · from sourced statements and Hafrok’s registers
Installation not started
Installation · on record
StageProposed
Offshore constructionnot started
Expected start of operationnot stated
Sources & verification
Rests on 4 sources · ◆ 4 documents held
◆Verified≈Modelled◇Sourced∴Inferred⌁Convention○Unverified∅No source·Derived
Numbers are stable citation ids — grouped by source class, so they are not consecutive.
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[1]
한국수력원자력 (KHNP)2026-06-29◆ 한국수력원자력 컨소시엄, 전북 서남권 해상풍력 확산단지1 공모사업 우선협…
“「한국수력원자력(사장 김회천, 이하, 한수원)이 전북특별자치도가 추진하는 ‘전북 서남권 해상풍력 확산단지1(부안 800MW) 공공사업시행자 공모’의 우선협상대상자로 선정됐다.」 「50% 이상의 공공기관 지분 보유를 공모 참여 요건으로 하고 있다.」 「한수원 컨소시엄은 오는 8월말까지 전북도와 실시협약을 체결하고 사업을 추진해 나갈 계획이다.」 [EN] KH…”
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[2]
전북특별자치도 (Jeonbuk State)2026-01-27◆ 전북자치도, 800MW급 서남권 해상풍력 '공공 사업시행자' 찾는다
Copyrighted source — cited, not quoted; read it at the source link.
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[3]
전북특별자치도 (Jeonbuk State)2025-02-12◆ 전북자치도, 서남권 해상풍력 1GW 규모 집적화단지 추가 지정 쾌거!
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Auction pipeline1
[4]
기후에너지환경부 (MCEE), via 대한민국 정책브리핑 (korea.kr)2026-06-30◆ kr-mcee-roadmap-2026
Roadmap table, 2026 H2 column: 경쟁입찰 물량 1.7~3.0 GW (고정식 1.3~2.0, 부유식 0.4~1.0). "RPS 제도 일몰('27.1.1.)에 따라 '27년 이후 입찰에 대한 세부 운영 방식 및 선정 프로세스 구체화 필요 ('26년 하반기 중)."
supportsSouth Korea 2026 H2 Offshore Wind Auction