South Korea launched the 2025 1st ESS Central Contract Market auction, offering 540 MW of capacity for energy storage projects across the mainland and Jeju.
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Joseph Kim is a global project finance and M&A lawyer, Co-Managing Shareholder of Greenberg Traurig's Singapore office, and head of the firm's Asia Energy and Infrastructure Practice. Joseph focuses his practice on energy and infrastructure projects, with deep experience in projects involving Japanese and Korean-led cross-border investments. With over two decades of experience in the renewables, conventional and nuclear power projects, Joseph advises first-of-its-kind and large-scale power projects across the globe. Understanding that power sector clients face diverse and complex issues, he develops custom strategies to help clients address their legal needs.
Joseph advises investors, sponsors, export credit agencies, commercial lenders, bilateral and multilateral agencies, and underwriters in connection with financing, acquiring, and developing a wide range of international energy and telecommunications projects. His experience includes matters involving power, upstream liquefied natural gas (LNG), natural resources, and renewable energy projects in Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas.
South Korea launched the 2025 1st ESS Central Contract Market auction, offering 540 MW of capacity for energy storage projects across the mainland and Jeju.
Continue Reading Powering the Grid: South Korea’s 2025 ESS Auction
This blog post discusses Asia’s offshore wind, BESS, and the growth of green data centers while facing COVID-19 impacts and regulatory changes. It also discusses Vietnam progressing in energy reforms to attract international investment.
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On July 3, 2024, the Vietnamese government issued Decree No. 80/2024/ND-CP (Decree 80), moving forward with its long-awaited mechanism for direct power purchase agreements (DPPAs) after months of circulated proposals…
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