Posco Energy

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POSCO Energy
Industry Electricity
Founded1969 (1969)
Headquarters,
Key people
Ko Seong-Sick
(Chief Executive Officer)
Products Electric power
LNG
fuel cells
RevenueIncrease2.svg KRW 1,917,600,000,000 Won (2011)
Increase2.svg KRW 46,100,000,000 Won (2011)
Total equity KRW 233,300,000,000 Won (2011)
Number of employees
630
Parent POSCO
Website eng.poscoenergy.com/_service/main.asp

POSCO Energy is the largest private energy producer in South Korea. [1] [2] It is a member of the POSCO consortium, and was established on November, 1969, in South Korea as the nation's first private electricity supplier. The main businesses are in coal-fired power generation, [3] fuel cells, [1] liquid natural gas (LNG), and off-gas power.

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With the completion of construction on the Incheon LNG combined cycle power plant in 2012, POSCO Energy will have 3,300 MW of power generation facilities.[ citation needed ]

It is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

History

1969–1999

2000–2006

2007–present

Operations

Subsidiaries

Power plant

New projects

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