Asan City

Republic of Korea Mayor: Ki-wang Bok
Summary
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    Population 308007
  • km 2
    Area 542.25
  • KRW
    GDP 25 Trillion
  • emission
    Targets by N/A N/A
Targets

Targets by Asan City

Energy efficiency target

 

206% Energy efficiency improvement by 2025

  • The Asan City committed to increase its energy efficiency in Final energy and Community energy consumption by 206% by 2025 compared to 2005 levels.
  • This target will be achieved in Electricity and Heating & cooling sectors

 

Actions
Planned Management of urban and residential environment improvement project / redevelopment / reconstruction project - Asan City
  • Start year:
  • Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
  • Status: In operation

1. Plan and enlarge the scale of Carbon-neutral demonstration complex
2. Enlarge Green Home and Green Building in the maintenance and development projects
3. Enlarge Carbon Reduction type City / complex / building development
4. Reduce carbon emission by the change regulation and residents participatory development

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Sectors:
  • Residential
  • Commercial
local action
Climate Change Action apartment #2 - Asan City
  • Start year: 2015
  • Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
  • Status: In operation

1. 전기 사용량이 집중되는 전력피크 시간 대의 전기사용량 감축 유도. 2. 전력수요 급증 완화 및 온실가스 감축 효과 도모

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Sectors:
  • Other Emissions
local action
Carbon Point #1 - Asan City
  • Start year: 2009
  • Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
  • Status: Completed

1. Minimize GHG emission by reducing energy consumption in households 2. Provide Carbon Points and incentives based on the amount of reduced Greenhouse Gas(GHG) converted to Co2-eq

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Sectors:
  • Buildings
  • Facilities
  • Transport
Renewable energy sculpture installation projects - Asan City
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  • Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
  • Status: In operation

1. Attach solar panel imprinted with Asan city logo as the main motif onto 20m diameter circular plates
2. Electricity generated from Solar cell power provides various services such as free-recharging for notebook, smart phone, speaker, and free-wifi to those around the sculpture

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Sectors:
  • Other Emissions
local action
Green Home & Green Building - Asan City
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  • Type: Fiscal / Financial mechanism
  • Status: In operation

Enlarged supply of Green Home, Green Building: Activation of eco-friendly and energy-efficiency level certification system

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Sectors:
  • Residential
  • Commercial
local action
Apartment #2, Joint to the Action of climate change response - Asan City
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  • Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
  • Status: Completed

1. Providing incentives to the apartments responded actively to the climate change and Global warming etc.
2. GHG Reduction completion in 12 Apartments complex among 21 complex participants(17,584 households) by more than 3% power consumption reduction

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Sectors:
  • Residential
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Green Village construction project - Asan City
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  • Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
  • Status: In operation

1. Green Village with Solar andgeothermal energy
2. Additional financial support for the household installing earth, solar thermal and PV system by the governmental as 'Green home supply project'.
3. 22,000,000 won support for 10 unit of earth energy system
4. Meet 54tCO2eq reduction expectation by supplying the earth energy system 10 unit in 1st 10 years long and 40 units in next 5 years long.

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Sectors:
  • Residential
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Restructuring and reforming the bicycle road & public transportation system. - Asan City
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  • Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
  • Status: In operation

1. Restructure public trasit systems of the urban-rural region link 1.1. Reform of Asan public transit line system 2. Set up the bicycle traffic system 2.1. Increase the exclusive bicycle lanes 2.2. Introduce Bicycle Rental system 2.3. Designate bicycle day 3. Reform bicycle system 3.1. Set up regulation of Bicycle road and parking facilities in new residential site and developments, large-scale housing project 3.2. Activate Janghang railway 3.3. Introduce high speed cycle read system

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Sectors:
  • Transport
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Projection of action plan of the Low Carbon Green City - Asan City
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  • Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
  • Status: Completed

1. Installation of peak power controllable 'System A/C' water-saving faucet, LED and hybrid transformers in public buildings.
2. Passive house resident center(office) of onyang 6-dong designed to use renewable energy such as solar and earth energy.
3. Target to be the city of comfort that guarantees human, intellectual asset type of renewable energy city, the ecological city aims to comply with the principles of conservation of natural resources

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Sectors:
  • Residential
  • Commercial
  • Industrial
local action
Apartment #1, Joint to the Action of climate change response - Asan City
  • Start year: 2012
  • Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
  • Status: Completed

1. 5% reduction in energy consumption at home by using more than monthly average 240kW 2. Various incentives based on reductions

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Sectors:
  • Residential
  • Commercial
  • Other Emissions
local action
Parks and green space plans - Asan City
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  • Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
  • Status: In operation

1. O2 Zone construction project
2.Eco Bridge construction project
3. 10million tree planting project
4. Foothills conservation projects: operating of the instructions in planning detail land scape
5. Eco-friendly stream development project

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Sectors:
  • Agriculture, Forest and Other Land Use (AFOLU)
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Carbon Point #2 - Asan City
  • Start year:
  • Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
  • Status: Completed

1. Minimize GHG emission by reducing energy consumption in households
2.Provide Carbon Points and incentives based on the amount of reduced Greenhouse Gas(GHG) converted to Co2-eq

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Sectors:
  • Buildings
  • Facilities
  • Transport
local action
Enlargement of Natural Gas supply project - Asan City
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  • Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
  • Status: In operation

1. Natural Gas has higher thermal efficiency than other fuels. It is also cheaper and eco friendly, and lower emission pollution.
2. Change kerosene boiler to natural gas boiler
3. Meet 0.62tCO2eq reduction expectation per one boiler by changing the fuel system under the assumption of use 8hr/day and 6month/yr.
4. Continue propulsion project without time limit

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Sectors:
  • Residential
  • Commercial
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Set up public transport system and development green port. - Asan City
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  • Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
  • Status: In operation

1. Introduce bus priority in Public transit system 1.1. Implement urban-rural integration and long-way transit system 1.2. Test-operation of Bus-only lane 1.3. Introduce low-floor and natural gas fuel buses 1.4. Construct transit terminal in major ocal points of Asan city, shinchang advanced city and downtown 2. Reform the parking system and linked Transit System 2.1. Securing parking space in outside(port, local), transit, public transportation separated area. 3. Lead the development of Asan Port and Yellow Sea Free Economic Zone into Green Port if development of the region proceeds 3.1. Build logistics transport port

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Sectors:
  • Other Emissions
local action
The spatial structure and land use plan - Asan City
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  • Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
  • Status: In operation

1. Maintain city identity and spatial structure considering city history and development conditions
2. Maintain substantiality and conservation of green fields through the compressive land use.
3. urban development and growth management policy with the Large-Scale project and accommodate ability in accordance with population growth
4. Land usage allocation and rationalization to meet the urban spatial structure and Region development strategy
5. Reasonable adjustments of urban spatial structure by integral of the load use and road traffic condition.

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Sectors:
  • Residential
  • Commercial
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Test project of Wood pellet boiler supply - Asan City
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  • Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
  • Status: In operation

1. Promote the use of environmentally friendly clean energy forest biomass and carbon reduction instead of high cost oil prices
2. Decrease burden on heating costs

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Sectors:
  • Residential
  • Waste
local action
Inventories
Community inventories

The Asan City has reported 1 Community emission inventory, since 2008. In its latest inventory, compiled in 2008, the Stationary energy, Transport, Waste management, Agriculture, forest and other land use and Agriculture, forest and other land use are identified as key emission sources.

GHG emission from Asan City
GHG inventory in 2008
Government operations inventory

GHG emission from Asan City
GHG inventory in

Mayor Ki-wang Bok
Asan City, Republic of Korea

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