{"id":4728,"date":"2021-04-09T16:34:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T07:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/?p=4728"},"modified":"2021-04-21T17:13:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T08:13:35","slug":"sk-energy-made-a-great-transformation-with-eco-friendly-complex-energy-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/archives\/4728","title":{"rendered":"SK Energy made a great transformation with eco-friendly complex energy stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4733\" src=\"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/210409_\uce5c\ud658\uacbd\uc8fc\uc720\uc18c_\ubb34\ud55c\ubcc0\uc2e0_\uba54\uc778.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1180\" height=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">SK Energy, a subsidiary of SK Innovation, is speeding up its ESG management for the future through business expansion of infrastructures such as gas stations, charging stations, and Netruck House. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">|<\/span> Building energy platform equipped with electric\/hydrogen vehicles infrastructure<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">Due to the explosive growth of EV battery market recently, the industry predicts that SK Innovation will accelerate even more in building electric vehicle\/hydrogen vehicle charging infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">As of last year\u2019s end, SK Energy is operating 37 EV charging stations with 40 chargers as of the end of 2020. To meet the demand of EV users, the company is considering adding more charging stations. The EV charging stations at SK headquarters&#8217; office building, Yangpyeong, and Yeongjongdo Skypark, etc. are equipped with 100kW super-fast chargers that can power up a variety of EVs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">SK Energy&#8217;s charging station is deeply changing into a gas station that serves as an eco-friendly energy platform that deviates from the existing business framework by installing hydrogen chargers and photovoltaic generation facilities and electric vehicle charging facilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4737\" src=\"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/210409_\ub0b4\ud2b8\ub7ed\ud558\uc6b0\uc2a4_\uce5c\ud658\uacbd\ud655\uc7a5_\uc774\ubbf8\uc9c0_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1180\" height=\"530\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">\u25b2 SK Energy started operating the first hydrogen charging station inside the LPG charging station site located in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea in January this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">In January this year, SK Energy&#8217;s first hydrogen charging station opened in Pyeongtaek. This station was built at the site of SK Energy&#8217;s gas station and LPG refueling station. SK Energy is in charge of operating it, while Hinet is responsible for construction and supplying hydrogen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">Meanwhile, SK announced its plant to intensively nurture hydrogen business as the next-generation energy by launching the \u201cHydrogen Business Promotion Team\u201d in December 2020. SK Innovation will be in charge of one of SK Group&#8217;s hydrogen businesses by utilizing the company&#8217;s petrochemical process and infrastructure such as gas stations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">Another subsidiary of SK Innovation, SK Incheon Petrochemical is expected to be in charge of supplying by-product hydrogen<sup>(1)<\/sup>. By placing the business site in the metropolitan area, where the demand for hydrogen energy is the highest, it is said to be an optimal location to efficiently solve the transport cost problem. SK Energy plans to supply hydrogen energy for vehicles by utilizing gas stations and NeTruck House<sup>(2)<\/sup> as green energy service hubs while actively developing demand for power generation, such as fuel cell power plants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">(1) By-product hydrogen: Hydrogen is additionally produced during the production process at production facilities such as petroleum\/chemical plants. In the meantime, due to difficulties in production and distribution, by-product Hydrogen were discarded without being recycled in many cases.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">(2) NeTruck House: SK Energy\u2019s \u201cone-stop service\u201d to enhance the truck drivers\u2019 welfare. Currently there are 22 points of NeTruck House in South Korea, and the number is expected to increase to 40 points by 2030.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">|<\/span> The transformation of gas station and Netruck House into eco-friendly complex energy station<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4738\" src=\"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/210409_\ub0b4\ud2b8\ub7ed\ud558\uc6b0\uc2a4_\uce5c\ud658\uacbd\ud655\uc7a5_\uc774\ubbf8\uc9c0_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1180\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">\u25b2 (Left) Photovoltaic plant installed at SK Energy Netruck House in Busan New Port Office, South Korea \/ (right) Photovoltaic plant installed at SK Energy Netruck House in Pyeongtaek Office, South Korea<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">Netruck House, the business launched by SK Energy in 2006, is transforming into eco-friendly gas station. At present, photovoltaic power generation facilities with total capacity of 1592 \u33be are operating at three NeTruck House sites, including Busan New Port, Okcheon, and Pyeongtaek. SK Energy is planning to expand these facilities at all NeTruck House\u2019 sites in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">SK Energy installed photovoltaic generation facilities on the rooftop and canopy of SK Energy&#8217;s gas stations. The photovoltaic generation is currently in commercial operation at 13 locations in Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Daegu. Compared to coal\/thermal power, photovoltaic generation can reduce greenhouse gas and fine dust, preventing environmental pollution<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">As such, SK Energy is innovating its gas stations and Netruck House, which have formed a nationwide network, as shared infrastructure to become eco-friendly complex energy stations that encompasses renewable energy such as photovoltaic generation, EV, LPG charging, hydrogen production and charging.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4739\" src=\"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/210409_\ub0b4\ud2b8\ub7ed\ud558\uc6b0\uc2a4_\uce5c\ud658\uacbd\ud655\uc7a5_\uc774\ubbf8\uc9c0_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1180\" height=\"490\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">\u25b2 On January 20th, SK Energy and the Seoul Metropolitan Government signed a business agreement for \u201cExpanding the Supply of Renewable Energy and Eco-friendly Vehicles\u201d at Seoul City Hall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">In addition, earlier this year, SK Energy signed a business agreement with Seoul Metropolitan Government to expand the supply of new and renewable energy and to build eco-friendly vehicle infrastructure to achieve carbon neutrality in 2050. Both sides found the necessity to change the energy in response to climate change crisis. The agreement aimed to maximize the social values created by installing photovoltaic generation facilities and EV charging facilities at SK gas stations and charging stations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 980px; border: 2px solid #d5d5d5; padding: 5px 0px; line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 10px;\">\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><strong>\u25a0 Related articles <\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/archives\/311\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SK Energy\u2019s NeTruck House, a One-Stop Service for Truck Drivers<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/archives\/1398\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Management Insight] CEO of SK Energy: \u201cSK Energy will be a new role model of energy industry through Decarbonization, Green, Platform\u201d<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; SK Energy, a subsidiary of SK Innovation, is speeding up its ESG management for the future through business expansion of infrastructures such as gas stations, charging stations, and Netruck House. &nbsp; | Building energy platform equipped with electric\/hydrogen vehicles infrastructure &nbsp; Due to the explosive growth of EV battery market recently, the industry predicts &#8230; <a title=\"SK Energy made a great transformation with eco-friendly complex energy stations\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/archives\/4728\" aria-label=\"Read more about SK Energy made a great transformation with eco-friendly complex energy stations\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,57],"tags":[111,274,228,22,75],"class_list":["post-4728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporates","category-sk-energy","tag-deep-change","tag-esg","tag-green-balance","tag-sk-energy","tag-social-value"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4974,"href":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions\/4974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}