陸上風力 認許可 問題點 및 改善方案에 대한 考察

Abstract

Wind power business has restrictions on locating even though it impacts its nation's economy. While the accumulated capacity of world wind power generation reach 283GW, Korea has only 0.17% of it. This stagnant of korean wind power business is because it takes long time on initial developing phase to searching for the suitable locations which has enough wind speed, and there are many restrictions in licensing due to complex procedures and regulations until the installation.

In order to invigorate wind power business in Korea, it should be licensed through the land development authorization procedure which is simpler way than others. In case of the site over 30,000㎡ in mountain, it is difficult to negotiate with Korea Porest Service through the land development authorization procedure. Even if the site is under 30,000㎡, we can not get permission for building driveway to the wind power site through the city management plan authorization process not the land development authorization procedure. 「The Guidelines for Environmental Influence Evaluation of On-shore Wind turbine (Plan)」 which Ministry of Environment is working out covers many contents that restrict wind turbine installation such as adopting index of changes in geographical features, limitation of length of wind farm, rules of separation distance between sites, and strict instructions for environmental impact study, etc.

This study analyzes those issues and suggests ideas for revising relative laws and the guideline for environmental influence evaluation in order to promote the growth of wind power business in Korea. It is considered reasonable to extend using period in the Management of Mountainous Districts Act to 20 years, allow the land development authorization procedure if the site in under 200,000㎡, and revising 「The Guidelines for Environmental Influence Evaluation of On-shore Wind turbine (Plan)」. The index of changes in geographical features should be revised or eliminated since it is not suitable for wind farm in mountains. Regarding regions for the major evaluating area, it is necessary to follow standards which already applied in other regulations. Environmental impact study for animals and plants is considered to be eliminated or limited for the environmental influence evaluation business which of generation capacity is more than 100MW. Limitation of length and rules of separation distance between wind farms are unsuitable for geography of Korea. The assessment committee of on-shore wind turbine developing business is not necessary since similar committee is exists. Also environmental site consulting regulation should be revised so that we can consult in necessity.