Seoul is also finding innovative ways to increase solar capacity, such as renting unused municipal land to private power generators and cooperatives for larger-scale PV power generation. Seoul has also made installation of solar PV systems mandatory for public buildings through the Seoul Environmental Assessment Standards and Green Building Code.
By the end of 2018, 98 MW of solar capacity was installed on public buildings, with a goal of 244 MW by 2022. Seoul is the first city in South Korea to develop standards in an ordinance on rents of municipal sites to private solar power generators.
Seoul's metropolitan government plans to deploy 1 GW of solar photovoltaic power for residential and municipal buildings. By 2022, every public building and one million homes in the city are set to be solar-powered, thanks to the Solar City Seoul project.
Since 2012, Seoul has adopted policies to reduce its dependency on nuclear energy through two phases of the One Less Nuclear Power Plant Project. In 2017, Solar City Seoul was launched with the goal of adding 1 GW-peak of solar power capacity by supplying PV panels to 1 million households by 2022.
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