The OECD laggard’s great reset: Korea replaces its REC market with KEPCO-contracted auctions from 2027, hands offshore wind a one-stop state framework, and lets RE100 exporter demand anchor the buildout — entry timing is the play.
Startup · Topic
Expert guides, analysis and tool comparisons on Country Strategies from the kurums.com Startup desk — written for business decision-makers and updated as the market moves.
The OECD laggard’s great reset: Korea replaces its REC market with KEPCO-contracted auctions from 2027, hands offshore wind a one-stop state framework, and lets RE100 exporter demand anchor the buildout — entry timing is the play.
Engineered decarbonization under stress: Japan’s 2040 renewable-first power mix, the ¥20tn GX machine, the offshore wind crisis and its seven-measure repair, the EEZ opening, and why the market pays a premium for certainty.
Chinese-scale growth with open foreign ownership: India’s auction machinery and record run-rates, the ALMM/PLI manufacturing bet, the rooftop revolution, storage’s rise — and the execution risks that set the pace toward 500 GW.
Half the world’s buildout, repriced mid-flight: how Document 136 replaced China’s tariffs with provincial CfD-style auctions, what the 15th Five-Year Plan targets, and where foreign investors actually fit a market they mostly cannot own.
How Australia underwrites its energy transition: CIS revenue floors and ceilings, 32 GW of tenders, state schemes, CEFC concessional finance, EPBC reform, and the delivery risks investors must price.
Why Canada may be the G7’s lowest-friction clean energy market: refundable ITCs, Bill C-15 expansions, provincial procurement in Ontario and Quebec, CIB financing, and Bill C-5 fast-tracking.
How the UK attracts renewable capital: Clean Power 2030, CfD auction mechanics and AR7 results, planning and grid-queue reform, Great British Energy, and the National Wealth Fund.
How Germany’s Energiewende works in 2026: statutory targets, EEG auctions and the coming two-sided CfD reform, fast-tracked permitting, KfW loans, and opportunities for investors and startups.
The US renewable energy market after the OBBBA: which tax credits survive, how permitting and interconnection work, the strongest state incentives, and how investors finance projects in 2026.