녹색성장을 위한「신에너지 및 재생에너지 개발· 이용·보급 촉진법」의 문제점과 개선방안

Abstract

Urbanization, industrialization, and gigantism have resulted in excess energy consumption. So limited resources have to face the crisis of energy depletion and continued uses of fossil fuel have caused the problem of global warming. Global warming is causing diverse environmental crises. In order to overcome the environmental crisis it faces, the world is restricting the greenhouse gas production. Together with this, the world has been developing green industry and green technology. Accordingly, green growth has become new growth engines of the future. Korea also aims to overcome the resources crisis and the environmental crisis with green growth policies and to reinforce the national competitiveness through the preoccupancy of the related global market. Korea is the world’s second largest producer of coal and 97% of its energy consumption is dependent upon imports. Such current conditions of energy imports cause various problems arising from supply fluctuations and price rises of oil resources. Not only the problems of energy supply but also the environmental problems caused by the byproducts of energy consumption are also important factors of hindering green growth. Korea has the problem of lots of carbon dioxide emission which is the principal offender of global warming caused by energy consumption. This means that Korea also is not free from the international greenhouse gas control. With the aforesaid recognition, Korea presented ‘low carbon dioxide green growth’ as the new national vision for the next 60 years. Korea’s green growth comprises not only the problems of energy and the environment but also creation of new jobs, the reinforcement of growth engines, the enhancement of corporate competitiveness, the reconstruction of the national land, and the revolution of green living. The core of such green growth policies is green energy policies. Legal supports are necessary for the government to implement the new green energy policies. With regard to this, the “New Energy and Renewable Energy Development, Use, and Spread Promotion Law” is currently put in force. Accordingly, this research focused on the “New Energy and Renewable Energy Development, Use, and Spread Promotion Law” among Korea’s energy policies for the green growth policy. In order to derive the problems and improvement schemes of the “New Energy and Renewable Energy Development, Use, and Spread Promotion Law”, first, the contents of the green growth policy that the government is promoting were examined. And then the structure of the entire energy-related laws related to the “New Energy and Renewable Energy Development, Use, and Spread Promotion Law” was analyzed to grasp the entire structures of energy laws. Based on this,the current conditions of the “New Energy and Renewable Energy Development, Use, and Spread Promotion Law”, which is this research subject, was examined and then the problems and improvement schemes of the “New Energy and Renewable Energy Development, Use,and Spread Promotion Law” were presented. This research presented the problems and improvement schemes with regard to the system of laws and regulations of hydrogen fuel, the issue of changing ‘the standard of the certain ratio of the ‘total construction cost’ to the certain ratio of ‘the annual quantity of energy consumed’, and the issue of converting ‘the feed-in tariff system’ to ‘the renewable portfolio standards’ and others.