The UK and South Korea are to strengthen their partnership in relation to offshore wind.
A new Clean Energy Partnership between the UK and the Republic of Korea (RoK) will be agreed on 22 November to boost energy security and accelerate the clean energy transition.
It extends to sharing information and lessons learned on offshore wind to support UK and RoK’s ambitions, collaborating on barriers to deployment and exploring commercial opportunities through the annual Offshore Wind Policy Dialogue.
The partnership will be signed in London by Energy Security Secretary Claire Coutinho and RoK’s Minister for Trade, Industry and Energy, Bang Moon Kyu.
It will see the UK and RoK strengthen cooperation on shared ambitions across the clean energy transition, low carbon technologies, including offshore wind, civil nuclear, and domestic climate policies.
The new partnership will promote UK-Korea business collaboration, addressing barriers to trade and encouraging mutual development of each other’s energy sectors.
The partnership comes alongside South Korean businesses injecting more than £10bn of new investment into the UK, backing renewable energy and infrastructure projects across the country, and supporting more than a thousand highly skilled jobs across the renewables supply chain.
Coutinho said: “The UK and the Republic of Korea already have a strong relationship on energy security and tackling climate change.
“The new partnership we will sign will see us collaborate even more closely, driving forward shared plans to accelerate clean energy sources, like renewables and nuclear power.
“This will help us make the green transition, while supporting the injection of more than £10bn into the UK economy from South Korean businesses and the thousand skilled jobs that come with that.”