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Jeonnam I – a 99-MW offshore wind farm off the coast of Shinan County, Jeonnam Province in the southwest of Korea – has reached financial close and construction completion of the wind farm is expected by the end of 2024

SEOUL, South Korea and COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Oct. 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Jeonnam I is a joint venture between SK E&S, one of the largest conglomerates in South Korea, and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (“CIP”) through its fund Copenhagen Infrastructure III (“CI III”).

Jeonnam Offshore Wind Power was founded in 2020 as a 51-49 joint venture between SK E&S and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and the project is expected to become the first Korean commercial scale offshore wind farm to go into operation in 2024. The project has been developed by a joint team comprised by SK E&S and Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP), the exclusive offshore wind development partner to CIP.

SK E&S and CIP are also jointly developing Jeonnam 2 and Jeonnam 3, two offshore wind projects with a total capacity of 800MW currently in the development phase. Jeonnam 1, 2 and 3 will support Korea’s ambitious target of reaching 14,3GW of offshore wind power by 2030, a significant increase compared to the existing 0,1GW installed today.

Jeonnam Offshore Wind Power obtained Electricity Business License in 2017 and entered a grid connection agreement with KEPCO, the state-owned utility in South Korea, allowing the project to connect to the grid during 2024. In 2022, Jeonnam I was awarded a 20-year fixed-price offtake agreement with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power through Korea’s first wind offtake auction.

Throughout 2022, the project also signed manufacturing and construction contracts with Korean suppliers including Hyundai Engineering and Steel Industries, Hyundai Electric and Gaon, KT Submarine and LS Cable and System. The project will utilize Mokpo New Port as marshalling port throughout construction, given the port’s ideal location near the Jeonnam 1 site.

Jeonnam 1 CEO Daniel Yun said, “SK E&S is proud to be leading the offshore wind industry in Korea with this landmark project. Jeonnam 1 is expected to provide green electricity equivalent to approximately 60,000 households in Korea.”

Jeonnam 1 COO Jesper Krarup Holst commented, “We are delighted to reach this milestone and enter the construction phase together with our JV partner and the project team. Together, we have demonstrated the power of close collaboration across companies and cultures to resolve tough challenges, to reach financial close, and to support Korea in its efforts to achieve their ambitious renewable energy goals.”

Torsten Lodberg Smed, senior partner at CIP, said, “Korea has a vast potential for offshore wind and CIP has, since entering the Korean market in 2018, invested significantly in developing the country’s wind power projects in multi-giga watts scale and its supply networks and foster a strong industry ecosystem. We are proud to have reached financial close and entering the construction phase on Jeonnam 1 and we look forward to completing this landmark project together with our partners.

CIP is also pursuing partnerships in Korea regarding the development and supply of blue and green ammonia into Korea to further facilitate Korea’s green transition.”

About Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners
Founded in 2012, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners P/S (CIP) today is the world’s largest dedicated fund manager within greenfield renewable energy investments and a global leader in offshore wind. The funds managed by CIP focuses on investments in offshore and onshore wind, solar PV, biomass and energy-from-waste, transmission and distribution, reserve capacity, storage, advanced bioenergy, and Power-to-X.

CIP manages ten funds and has to date raised approximately EUR 26 billion for investments in energy and associated infrastructure from more than 150 international institutional investors. CIP has approximately 400 employees and 12 offices around the world. For more information, visit www.cip.com

For further information, please contact:

E-mail: media@cip.com

Simon Mehl Augustesen, Chief Communication Officer
Phone: +45 3052 6721
Email: siau@cip.com

Thomas Kønig, Partner – Investor Relations
Phone: +45 7070 5151
Email: tkon@cip.com

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Center for Studies on New Religions’ Bitter Winter Publishes Exclusive Interview with Japanese NGO Leader Moriko Hori About Daily Discrimination Against Their Volunteers, Programs

Washington, DC, Oct. 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Center for Studies on New Religions’ Bitter Winter
Publishes Exclusive Interview with Japanese NGO Leader Moriko Hori
About Daily Discrimination Against Their Volunteers, Programs

Women’s Federation for World Peace Japan Reports Sudden Denial of Goods and Services,
 Use of Public Spaces, and Rejection of its Educational Programs

NGO Seeks Help From Advocates of Human Rights and Religious Freedom to Stop the Persecution

TORINO, Italy (October 10, 2023) Bitter Winter, a magazine of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), has been following the Japanese government’s unusual and intrusive investigation—and possible liquidation—of a minority religion, which began after the July 2022 assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Dr. Massimo Introvigne, editor-in-chief of Bitter Winter, recently interviewed Moriko Hori, president of the Women’s Federation for World Peace Japan (WFWP), about the persecution and discrimination her NGO is experiencing at the behest of a hostile lawyers’ group.

That group—the National Network of Lawyers Against Spiritual Sales (NNLSS)—has been at the forefront of attacking the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification/Unification Church. The Family Federation and WFWP share the same founders, Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, but are separate organizations; nevertheless, the NNLSS has been slandering WFWP Japan and its women volunteers as well.

WFWP Japan is an independent service organization that welcomes women volunteers of any faith—or no faith—and serves low-income women and children in 50 countries. Its founding organization, Women’s Federation for World Peace International, was recognized in 1997 by the United Nations, which granted it general consultative status at its Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). This status is reserved for “fairly large, established international NGOs with a broad geographical reach” that have offered “substantive and sustained contributions” aligned with the aims of the United Nations in multiple fields.

“Women who are part of WFWP Japan, including many who are not members of the Family Federation and never were, live in a very difficult situation. Their lives have been shattered, and they are bullied and discriminated daily in many different ways,” said Mrs. Hori.

For instance, one city suddenly informed WFWP Japan it was prohibited from using its public facilities for events because WFWP “causes fear among” the city residents, Mrs. Hori said. But this notification was “particularly absurd, given that WFWP, as a volunteer organization, has been contributing to the community … for 30 years, with projects that the local citizens know and appreciate.”

Another casualty of apparent bigotry is the WFWP Japan’s flagship project—a speech contest for female foreign students on their abilities to speak Japanese. “On June 15 of this year, NNLSS issued a protest against the Speech Contest, requesting that local governments and universities should not permit the use of public facilities by WFWP Japan,” she told Dr. Introvigne. “WFWP members were astonished by this protest,” she said. The Speech Contest, which has been conducted for 26 years, “has been widely praised as a way of supporting international female students who come to Japan.”

Mrs. Hori said WFWP Japan is appealing to the United Nation Human Rights Council and also seeks support from groups that work to protect human rights and religious freedom.

“The persecution and interference against WFWP, its members, and those who receive help from the organization are acts of religious hatred and clear violations of human rights,” she said. “I believe that only international support may change this situation” by contacting the Japanese government and “telling them this persecution should cease.”

For more information, please contact: info@bitterwinter.org

Link to Bitter Winter article: https://bitterwinter.org/no-good-deed-goes-unpunished-the-unbelievable-persecution-of-the-womens-federation-for-world-peace-in-japan/

Massimo Introvigne
Center for Studies on New Religions, "Bitter Winter"
+39011541950
massimo.introvigne@bitterwinter.org

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Smart City Expo World Congress

General view of the exhibition at Smart City Expo 2022

บาร์เซโลนา ประเทศสเปน, Oct. 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) ซึ่งเป็นการประชุมระดับนานาชาติเพื่อหารือเกี่ยวกับโซลูชันสำหรับเมืองและการพัฒนาเมืองอัจฉริยะที่ดำเนินงานโดย Fira De Barcelona จะจัดขึ้นในปี 2023 โดยเป็นงานที่ใหญ่ที่สุดนับจนถึงปัจจุบัน งานนี้จะจัดขึ้นตั้งแต่วันที่ 7 จนถึงวันที่ 9 พฤศจิกายน ภายใต้ธีมงานที่มีชื่อว่า “Welcome to the New Urban Era” และตั้งเป้าที่จะทำลายสถิติเดิมด้วยการเพิ่มพื้นที่จัดงานนิทรรศการขึ้น 55% และเพิ่มผู้เข้าร่วมงานขึ้นอีก 20% เมื่อเทียบกับปีก่อนหน้า คาดว่าจะมีผู้เข้าร่วมจัดงานนิทรรศการมากกว่า 1,000 ราย มีตัวแทนเข้าร่วม 25,000 ราย และมีผู้แทนจากเมืองต่างๆ มากกว่า 800 เมืองและ 140 ประเทศเดินทางไปที่บาร์เซโลนา

SCEWC เป็นงานนิทรรศการระดับโลกที่จัดแสดงโซลูชันสำหรับเมืองระดับนวัตกรรม และโครงการต่าง ๆ ซึ่งมุ่งเน้นที่การปฏิรูปเมืองให้กลายเป็นพื้นที่ที่มีความยั่งยืน มีประสิทธิภาพ และน่าอยู่มากยิ่งขึ้น เพื่อให้บรรลุเป้าหมายนี้ การประชุมจะแบ่งโครงสร้างของโปรแกรมออกเป็นแปดส่วนหลัก ๆ ดังนี้ การใช้ประโยชน์จากเทคโนโลยี พลังงานและสิ่งแวดล้อม ความสามารถในการเคลื่อนที่ การกำกับดูแล การอาศัยและการไม่แบ่งแยก เศรษฐกิจ โครงสร้างพื้นฐานและอาคาร ความปลอดภัยและระบบรักษาความปลอดภัย และเศรษฐกิจสีน้ำเงิน

งานนี้จะนำเสนอวิทยากรจำนวน 600 ท่าน รวมถึงบุคคลที่มีชื่อเสียงโดดเด่น อาทิเช่น นักวิทยาศาสตร์คอมพิวเตอร์และผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านอคติในอัลกอริทึม Margaret Mitchell, ทนายความผู้มีความชำนาญพิเศษด้านปัญญาประดิษฐ์ Micaela Mantegna, และผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านการพัฒนาอย่างยั่งยืน Claire O’Neill ซึ่งเป็นอดีตรัฐมนตรีกระทรวงพลังงานและการเติบโตขณะที่ลดการปล่อยก๊าซเรือนกระจก (Energy & Clean Growth) แห่งสหราชอาณาจักร

การอภิปรายในประเด็นที่สำคัญจาก Airbnb และ FC Barcelona

หนึ่งในไฮไลท์ของงาน SCEWC ได้แก่ การอภิปรายในประเด็นที่สำคัญจาก Airbnb และ FC Barcelona ผู้ร่วมก่อตั้งและประธานเจ้าหน้าที่ฝ่ายกลยุทธ์ของ Airbnb, Nathan Blecharczyk จะมาร่วมพูดคุยว่าบริษัทมีแนวทางรับมือกับอนาคตอย่างไร และความต้องการที่จะแก้ปัญหาการท่องเที่ยวมากเกินไปด้วยการใช้ฟีเจอร์ใหม่ ๆ เพื่อช่วยกระจายแขกที่มาเข้าพักและสิทธิประโยชน์ต่าง ๆ ทั่วทั้งยุโรป

ผู้แทนต่าง ๆ จาก FC Barcelona จะอธิบายถึงวิธีที่ทางสโมสรกำลังเป็นผู้นำด้านการปฏิรูปสภาพแวดล้อมของสนามกีฬาเพื่อปรับภูมิทัศน์ของเมืองผ่านการพัฒนาโครงสร้างพื้นฐานและการสร้างความยั่งยืน โดยมีจุดมุ่งหมายในการสร้างแลนด์มาร์กแห่งใหม่ของเมืองและปรับปรุงคุณภาพชีวิตของผู้พำนักอาศัยในเมือง

ยิ่งไปกว่านั้นทาง SCEWC ยังได้มีผู้มาเข้าจองพื้นที่จัดงานนิทรรศการจนเต็ม ซึ่งได้แก่บริษัทต่าง ๆ เช่น AWS, Aramco, Axis, Cisco, Dassault Systemes, Dell, Deloitte, FCC, Honeywell, Microsoft, Nvidia, PWC, Roshn, Siemens, Smart Ports: Piers of the Future และ Veolia

นอกจากนี้ ภายในงานจะมีการจัดบูธจากเมืองและประเทศต่าง ๆ รวมถึง บราซิล จีน เอสโตเนีย ฝรั่งเศส เยอรมนี อินเดีย อิสราเอล อิตาลี ญี่ปุ่น เกาหลี เม็กซิโก กลุ่มประเทศนอร์ดิก โปแลนด์ โปรตุเกส ซาอุดิอารเบีย และสหรัฐอเมริกา และอีกมากมาย

SCEWC จะจัดงานกิจกรรมภายในสถานที่ร่วมกันขึ้นสามงาน ซึ่งก็คือ Tomorrow.Building, Tomorrow.Mobility, and Tomorrow.BlueEconomy โดยมุ่งเน้นที่เฉพาะหัวข้อ เช่น การก่อสร้าง การขนส่ง และโอกาสสำหรับทะเลในเมืองริมชายฝั่ง การเพิ่มความโดดเด่นของบาร์เซโลนาในฐานะศูนย์กลางระดับโลกด้านโซลูชันสำหรับเมืองระดับนวัตกรรม

หากสื่อมวลชนต้องการสอบถาม กรุณาติดต่อ:

Salvador Bilurbina
อีเมล: sbilurbina@firabarcelona.com
โทร: +34628162674

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Data Reveals a Majority of PR Pros Are Very Optimistic About AI, Believe It Can ‘Notably’ Impact Strategy Development

NEW YORK, Oct. 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Notified, a globally trusted technology partner for public relations, investor relations, and marketing professionals, today announced the results of its latest survey, “Bridging the Gap Between AI & PR: a Short Guide,” in partnership with PRWeek. The data revealed increasing enthusiasm about AI’s potential to optimize communications campaigns, with more than half of respondents indicating that the tech can “notably” improve PR’s ability to be strategic.

“The survey findings were clear – PR professionals are no longer worried about AI replacing them and are excited about its potential, beyond initial use cases like content generation,” said Nimesh Davé, President, Notified. “However, most survey respondents don’t yet feel comfortable using available tools in a meaningful way and feel they’re not as knowledgeable as they could be when it comes to implementing AI into their daily work. Agency and brand leaders should focus on education – which will be critical to adoption – including policies, resources and guardrails for experimentation.”

The survey asked 200 senior agency and brand communicators to identify how AI could impact the future of public relations – taking factors such as adoption and usage, popular tools, and the knowledge and education needed for effective implementation into account. Findings include:

• Education is Required: More education is needed for PR pros surrounding the uses and applications of AI – and most communicators aren’t currently using the tools they have heard of in a meaningful way beyond experimenting. Only 12% of survey respondents say they were “very knowledgeable” about AI and its applications to PR functions. Additionally, only 36% of in-house respondents vs. 22% of agency respondents reported that they “currently know the difference between Narrow/Weak AI and General/Strong AI.”
• AI Shows Promise For Strategic Work: Communicators believe that AI can improve productivity and streamline job functions. 57% of respondents believe that AI can “notably” improve their ability to be more strategic, and 54% of respondents feel that the technology can “notably” improve their ability to tell stories.
• Content Generation Is Still King: 61% of survey respondents ranked “content creation” as their top application of AI, with 59% feeling that it can be done “notably” better with the technology than without it. 55% felt that writing prompts will be a new skill that PR pros will need to master in order to successfully use AI for content.

A Media Snippet accompanying this announcement is available by clicking on this link.

“We’re just starting to see how much AI technology can truly impact productivity for communications professionals – and the industry is increasingly embracing this technology to streamline everything from content creation to generating insights and research materials,” said Gideon Fidelzeid, Editorial Director of Custom, PRWeek. “This report captures the confidence and optimism that communicators have in AI to transform their workflows – although it’s clear that widespread adoption across both agencies and in-house teams starts with improving proficiency surrounding its effective use. As the data reflects, we’re at an exciting precipice for the use of AI technology in PR – with the potential to create a more effective and efficient future for communicators.”

Notified and PRWeek will present these survey findings during the panel session, “AI: A Call to Action” at the upcoming PRDecoded Conference, taking place from October 11-12 in Chicago, IL.

To download the full results of Notified and PRWeek’s Bridging the Gap Between AI & PR survey, visit: https://insight.notified.com/bridging-gap-ai-pr

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