This study has implemented to accomplish three goals that help for Gyeongnam Province’s decision making about the industrial policies in new & renewable energy area. The first goal is to find the promotion conditions through the analysis of global market trends of photovoltaic and wind energy industries. The second goal is to scrutinize the actual situations and to summarize the demand for policies of small and medium-sized business in Gyeongnam Province area. The final goal is to suggest some policy proposals to promote new & renewable energy industries in Gyeongnam province area.
In the process of this study Ican find some facts as mentioned below. The global new & renewable energy industries had grown 28.2% annually during resent 5 years. Although the prices of polysillicon and solar cell were falling recently, global photovoltaic market has grown rapidly since 2008. Global wind energy market, like the photovoltaic market, has grown rapidly during 2005-2009 years, but the market size was reduced slightly in 2010.
Also I can find that the Gyeongnam province area has many manufacturers in new & renewable energy industry and favorable environments such as the Gyeongnam province government’s policy direction, excellent national institutes (KIMS, KERI) and many universities.
However, the results of research on the actual condition show some weaknesses of Gyeongnam province area as outlined below. First of all, almost the whole manufacturers are small-sized. They sales only 1.5 hundred million won on average in 2010, whereas medium-sized manufacturers sales 140 hundred million won on average in 2010. Almost every manufacturer has not exportexperiences and hasslightly ambiguous vision for the future global (and domestic) market, etc.
My policy suggestions to promote new & renewable energy industries in Gyeongnam province area are as follows: Planning for photovoltaic industry, to draw up the TRM, to facilitate the construction companies’ subsidiaries in photovoltaic field, to set up technology forum for new & renewable energy industries, to survey the possibilities of marine photovoltaic industry in Gyeongnam province, to build zero-energy town, etc.