Seoul Startup Hub Seongsu, jointly operated by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Business Agency, announced that it has held the “2025 Seoul Startup ESG Forum.”

Seoul Startup Hub Seongsu has been selecting companies that implement technology-based ESG management as “ESG Excellent Companies,” and at this forum, the selected companies participated and presented cases of ESG application centered on technology and data.

The forum highlighted decentralized renewable energy models that utilize idle resources in urban and regional areas as major case studies. Participating companies (H Energy, SixtyHertz, etc.) shared the view that decentralized renewable energy models are expanding beyond power generation into investment, operation, and data-based management, and that this expansion can also drive changes in how the power market is operated in the ESG era.

H Energy presented a decentralized renewable energy model that converts idle roofs and rooftops nationwide into energy-based facilities, and, in connection with Seoul Startup Hub Seongsu’s follow-up support program for ESG Excellent Companies, it obtained ISO 9001 (Quality Management System) certification and ISO 27001 (Information Security Management System) certification. It also shared measures such as raising internal awareness through personal data protection training for executives and employees, and building and organizing a management system aligned with international standards.

SixtyHertz is an energy IT social venture that supports the expansion of renewable energy based on virtual power plant (VPP) technology, which connects small-scale distributed power sources via IT to operate them as if they were a single power plant. Through this follow-up support program, the company strengthened its ESG business foundation by developing and testing a software-based RTU management system that implements functions for linking with a renewable energy certificate platform.

A common thread among the cases presented at the forum was that renewable energy is being extended beyond the simple domain of production into structures for investment, operation, and data, thereby linking ESG to tangible outcomes. Seoul Startup Hub Seongsu stated that these presentations were introduced as examples demonstrating that renewable energy–based ESG has moved beyond declarations and is entering a stage of practical operation in the field.

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