Governor Lee Nak-yeon of South Jeolla Province, Superintendent of Gwangju City Jang Hwi-guk, Mayor Yoon Jang-hyun of Gwangju Metropolitan City, and Chairman of Gwangju City Council Lee Eun-bang (from left of the front row) attended the SWEET 2017 event held at Kim Dae-jung Convention Center in Gwangju and toured the exhibition hall./Courtesy = South Jeolla Province

Jeollanam-do Province achieved the highest performance ever by signing a $440 million consultation performance and 26 export MOUs with overseas companies at the "SWEET 2017" held in Gwangju to prepare alternatives to global warming and energy crises and to develop overseas markets for small and medium-sized companies in the domestic energy industry.

According to the province on the 19th, E-Soltec, which actually produces "Zero Energy House," an intensive group of Gwangju renewable energy technologies, signed a $100,000 technology export agreement with O, which visited Nigeria.

"BJ," a smoke-saving pellet boiler producer based in Yeonggwang-gun, Jeollanam-do, signed an agreement worth $60 million with Ethiopian H, and a practical contract is expected to be made through consultations between the two companies in the future.

U.S. company E showed great interest in the energy storage system (ESS) of "Suntech" located in Suncheon City and signed a $100,000 agreement, proving that South Jeolla Province is the "center of Korea's energy industry" by conducting 497 large and small export consultations in three days.

For the first time in the Honam region, the "Large Small and Medium Business Purchase Consultation Conference" hosted by the Small and Medium Business Administration and organized by the Small and Medium Business Cooperation Foundation was held at the same time as an energy industry-specific consultation.

About 100 purchasing managers from 64 companies, including large companies such as Samsung, LG, and SK, and energy public companies such as Korea Southern Power and Korea East-West Power, participated in about 300 purchase consultations with small and medium-sized companies to quench local energy companies' thirst for domestic market development.

In this exhibition, more than 20 large and small seminars and conferences were held, including workshops involving public officials in charge of renewable energy supply projects in 247 local governments across the country.

As a result, 3,000 professional visitors from all over the country visited the venue, which had a positive ripple effect on the local economy.

An official from a company that has been steadily participating in SWEET said, "As the quality and scale of the event are growing every year, it is likely to be an energy exhibition representing Korea within a few years."..

In this 'SWEET 2017', a large number of 72 global buyers from 56 companies visited Korea from 30 countries, including developed countries in the energy industry, including the United States and Russia, and developing countries such as Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Malaysia, which are actively investing in the renewable energy industry.