As climate change is seriously recognized by global society, renewable energy is developed ever more to alternate previous ones that burn fossil fuels. Among renewable energies, there are biomass, biofuel, geothermal, hydroelectricity, solar energy, tidal power, wave power and wind power. In this month?s article I would like to talk about Gumi city?s successful launch of solar power test bed.

           Through competition, Gumi city has won the responsibility to launch a test bed for solar energy. There are several reasons to guess, about how this small city has granted such thing, and among all, the most agreeable one is that Gumi city has been working on developing solar energy on its own since 2009. By winning this chance, about 4 hundred million won gets invested in the whole project through three years.

           When the construction of solar energy test bed gets finished, we may look forward to core technology nationalization, acceleration of technology development and exportation of related local companies. The city mayor said, ?From now on Gumi city will try as hard as we can to establish itself as a leading city of green growth project that the current government runs, and to focus on investing technology development.?

           It has been accorded that as of 2011, small solar PV systems provide electricity to a few million households. Solar energy has much more potential than people guess. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said that renewable energy has the ability to lift the poorest nations to new levels of prosperity. With this much potential Gumi city looks forward to launching solar energy test bed in both environmental and economical way.