미세먼지 저감을 위한 환경법제의 개선방안 - 석탄화력발전소 운영 현황 및 관련 법제를 중심으로 -

Abstract

Economic growth is leading to a rise in the electricity generation quantity. According to this, people’s safe and healthy life is being intimidated both by the carbon emission quantity, which is created in the process of combustion process such as the energy generation facilities, a factory district and industrial process, and by the release into the atmosphere of the substances such as SOX(sulfur oxides), NOX(nitrogen oxide), VOCS(volatile organic compounds), NHX(ammonium-like substance), and O3(ozone), which become the major causes of fine dust. Hence, the government promised to foster an atmospheric environment for people to be able to actually feel as a policy challenge in the environment sector and ever declared 「2050 Carbon Neutrality」 lately that threatens global warming. In this way, the government is striving for the betterment in atmospheric environment these days in order to ease public anxiety. However, the recurrence of ultra-fine particle in winter and spring every year leads not only to the inconvenience in the life but also to a surge in bad days of fine dust including the fine particle concentration as the years go by. In recent years, even the abnormal weather conditions are also frequent. As a result, the government is establishing and implementing a plan as saying of converting the power supply system based on renewable energy such as solar power and wind power as for the power supply system of centering on fossil fuel generation, and of changing a role as power source, which supplements the imperfection of renewable energy through positively applying eco-friendly technology in terms of the fossil fuel generation. Resultingly, a reduction of the aging coal-fired power plants is being planned. From a long-term perspective, the energy generation scheme like this is welcome. Nevertheless, in light of the economic development plan of our country that has focused on economic growth so far, the new renewable energy generation facility with low electrical energy production is doubted about whether it will be able to replace coal-fired power plant, which is currently responsible for generating electric energy at low raw material costs, and is also concerned over what it may be just a scheme. Therefore, this study is aimed to examine the problems and improvement plans for the relevant environmental legislations as a move to cut down fine dust on the premise of operating a coal-fired power plant for the time being until the new renewable energy generation facilities can replace the thermal power plant production from the more realistic point of view.