KEPCO enters US solar market

Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) President Cho Hwan-eik, right, shakes hands with Carlyle Group Chairman Dan D’Aniello after signing a deal on purchasing a 30-megawatt solar power plant in Alamosa County, Colorado, during a signing ceremony in New York, Friday (local time). KEPCO and a domestic private equity fund purchased a 100 percent stake in the power plant from Cogentrix Solar Holdings, an affiliate of Carlyle Group, marking KEPCO’s first entry into the U.S. energy market. / Courtesy of KEPCO