A 532MW Project in Limbo: Is Military Clearance the Ultimate Bottleneck for Offshore Wind?
South Korea’s Anma Offshore Wind Project stands as a stark reminder: the most formidable barriers to clean energy are often not technical or financial, but regulatory and strategic.
Despite being “shovel-ready” with contracts signed, this major project is frozen. Why? Its prime location overlaps with a South Korean Navy live-fire training zone. This single, unresolved conflict with national defense priorities has halted all progress, pushing FID back by years.
