South Korea Solar
Provenance, tier, and validation record for south-korea-solar. No live curtailment figures on this page — those are on the globe.
- Region id
south-korea-solar- Country
- KOR
- Waste modality
- Solar
- Coordinates
- 35.50° N, 127.00° E
- Tier
estimated· T3-modelledNo live feed and no published total for this region. A typical-shape profile is scaled to a capacity-based or literature anchor.
Modelled profile, scaled to annual (±40%)
- Uncertainty
- ±40% of peak GW
Published envelope for this tier. See the uncertainty model.
- Source provenance
modelled-fallback· No verified upstream linkThere is no verified upstream link. The snapshot is a typical-shape profile scaled to an anchor, or otherwise estimated.
- Source
- Curtailment = Ember/OWID 2025 solar generation 37.80 TWh × 3.2% published 2024 curtailment rate (MDPI 2024, citing IEA; mainland excl. Jeju). KPX live feed needs a serviceKey (Korean identity verification) — documented blocker, not wired.
Tier, provenance, and source are read at build time from src/lib/regions.ts — the same table the globe draws from. The validation record below is generated separately and gated against it by npm run ci:docs-drift.
Validation record
Last updated: 2026-08-20 · Sprint: S1 + HB integration · Paper section: Technical Validation §4.2
Source
- Region id:
south-korea-solar - Country: KOR
- Tier: estimated
- Kind: solar
- Source: Curtailment = Ember/OWID 2025 solar generation 37.80 TWh × 3.2% published 2024 curtailment rate (MDPI 2024, citing IEA; mainland excl. Jeju). KPX live feed needs a serviceKey (Korean identity verification) — documented blocker, not wired.
- Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-mix?country=KOR&metric=share_of_generation&source=solar
- Loader: (no single-file loader — see multi-region source)
- Structural gap: no
Calibration
- Rate source documented in:
docs/methodology/(see links below) - Uniform across backfill years: n/a — no backfill
Multi-year backfill annual totals
| Year | Backfill rows | Backfill annual TWh | Published TSO annual TWh | Δ % | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (no backfill or TSO anchors yet — will be populated after HB fan-out completes) |
Published anchors
- TSO annual curtailment (latest published): —
- Ember annual: —
- IRENA annual: —
- Other: —
Discrepancy analysis
No backfill and no TSO anchor parquet. Region relies on the published IEA/KPX annual anchor split across the typical-shape profile; solar reads 0 at local night by construction.
Known limitations
No region-specific limitations recorded. See docs/methodology/historical-backfill.md §"Known limitations" for cross-cutting notes.
Links
- Loader source: (no single-file loader — see multi-region source)
- Backfill archive:
data/historical/backfill/*_south-korea-solar_*.parquet(0 years) - Cross-cutting methodology:
docs/methodology/historical-backfill.md - Data source log:
docs/data-source-log.md - Known limitations index:
docs/known-limitations.md
Current GW, 24-hour peak, 30-day TWh, and feed freshness for this region are on the globe. Cite this page as everylastjoule.com/region/south-korea-solar. The dataset has a DOI; see About.