KEPCO KPS (President Kim Hong-yeon), a company specializing in power facility maintenance, is taking the lead in the early achievement of government policy tasks, including the major energy transition toward renewable energy and the development and introduction of artificial intelligence (AI)-based technologies.

KEPCO KPS recently signed a “Business Agreement for the Establishment of a Wind Power Education and Training Center and Maintenance Shop” with Mokpo City, Mokpo National University and KMC Shipping.

The agreement was concluded as the four parties joined forces to proactively respond to the creation of a wind power operation and maintenance (O&M) ecosystem by fostering specialized personnel and securing maintenance facilities in the Jeonnam region, which is rapidly emerging as a hub of the domestic offshore wind power industry.

This was followed by consecutive “Business Agreements for Cooperation in Offshore Wind Power O&M Business” with Vestas and KMC Shipping. Vestas, headquartered in Denmark, is a global leader in wind turbine technology and plans to build a cooperation framework based on its advanced technological capabilities and global supply know-how. KMC Shipping will further support the cooperation projects by leveraging its operational capabilities in specialized vessels, including CTVs (crew transfer vessels) and SOVs (service operation vessels), which are dedicated to offshore wind installation and maintenance.

Through these successive agreements, KEPCO KPS aims to secure a leading position in offshore wind O&M, the core of the renewable energy business, and actively generate outcomes through collaboration among the public sector, academia and private companies.

The company plans to establish a wind power education and training center and promote a one-stop wind power professional training program that includes safety and technical training in line with global standards (GWO), as well as specialized training in cooperation with wind turbine manufacturers.

In addition, KEPCO KPS plans to build a specialized wind power maintenance shop to provide prompt and systematic parts procurement and maintenance services.

In parallel, the company is actively developing and adopting AI-based power facility maintenance technologies, supporting the government’s strong commitment to becoming a global AI powerhouse. Since last year, AI-based technology development achievements have been accumulating one after another.

The recently developed “Automatic Detection Program for Trees Near Transmission Lines” is a system for predicting transmission line failures and accidents that uses drones to precisely photograph areas around transmission lines as three-dimensional point cloud data, which AI then analyzes to automatically identify trees in close proximity. The previously demonstrated “Intelligent AI CCTV” technology is a next-generation smart safety management solution developed in-house by KEPCO KPS to minimize blind spots around transmission towers and industrial sites and prevent serious accidents, using its proprietary intelligent AI technology.

The company has also developed equipment in which a remotely controlled robot enters the interior of key reactor structures, scans surfaces with a high-resolution camera, and then uses AI algorithms to automatically analyze and detect even minute defects in real time, with full-scale deployment imminent.

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