The decree is in as well
The Act on the Promotion of Offshore Wind Deployment and Industrial Development takes effect on 26 March 2026. The enforcement decree, which cleared Cabinet on 17 March, comes into force on the same day.
What changes is who finds the site. Until now a developer picked the sea area, installed met masts, and obtained forty-two permits, filing with each agency separately. Those permits sit across twenty-eight statutes administered by as many as ten ministries. With no body to coordinate them, disagreements between ministries went unresolved for years.
From here the government surveys first. It designates a preliminary zone on wind conditions, fishing activity, environmental impact and marine traffic, then confirms a generation district after weighing economics, community acceptance and the grid. A developer selected inside that district clears all forty-two permits through a single approval of its implementation plan.
The expected gain is time. A project that has taken more than ten years on average is meant to take about five or six.
