Company
ENVELOPS, developing agrivoltaics since 2018.
The name joins EN from ENergy and ENvironment with VELOP from deVELOP: developing energy and the environment together.
Bring Light, Bring Life.
Light into energy, land into harvests. Since 2018 ENVELOPS has developed, designed and operated agrivoltaics in Korea, the Pacific, Southeast Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, as a development and technology company working on the energy transition in developing countries.
Beyond agrivoltaics we have delivered feasibility studies and project development for biomass, small hydro and other renewables, UN CTCN technical assistance, and energy policy consulting. The 21 agrivoltaic sites in Korea are the track record of KLES, a power-plant engineering and construction company, and ENVELOPS. The overseas projects are delivered by ENVELOPS itself. Learn more
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Founded in April 2018 at the Korea University industry-academia building
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UN Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN) network member (N0548), with expertise in agriculture, carbon fixation and abatement, and renewable energy
Source · CTCN
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Agrivoltaics in Korea: 21 sites and about 2.1 MW, the KLES and ENVELOPS track record since 2019 (20 agrivoltaic sites and one rooftop array; Korea Energy Foundation and Large & Small Business Agricultural Cooperation Foundation programmes), with O&M at 16 of them
Source · Domestic plant list (Oct 2026) · EPC/O&M track record (Oct 2025)
Timeline
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2018
Founded in April 2018 at the Korea University industry-academia building
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2018–2019
KOICA GCF project identification (2018) and KEITI pre-feasibility study (2019) for the development of a 5 MW agrivoltaic project in Fiji
Source · KOICA and KEITI certificates of performance
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2020.08
Ovalau (Fiji) 4 MW agrivoltaic project approved by the Green Climate Fund Board at B.26 (SAP016)
Source · E2 News
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2022.10.28
Korea East-West Power, ENVELOPS and KLES sign a comprehensive joint-development MoU for overseas agrivoltaics
Source · CNB News · MoU on file (ENV-MOU-22001)
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2023.11.27
Bureta Solar Power Station, Ovalau: project company OAS signs a 25-year power purchase agreement with Energy Fiji Limited
Source · Formal letter between OAS and EFL (Sept 2026)
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2024.01.05
Korean patent 10-2623428, modelling system for predicting generation and crop yield in agrivoltaics (filed July 2021)
Source · KIPO patent certificate
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2024.10.29
NongHyup (NACF) Chairman's Encouragement Award (NHarvest × Impact Earth Demo Day, No. 2024-3642), for contribution to agtech start-up growth
Source · Certificate on file
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2025.05
Office relocated to Seongsu-dong, Seoul
Source · The Bell
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2025.06.20
KISED President's Award, 2025 National Farm Expo Youth Start-up Business Model Competition (No. 25-01-0012)
Source · Certificate on file
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2025.09.03
CTCN ASIA25 session presentation: "Smart Agrivoltaic Management System (SAMS)"
Source · CTCN (presentation PDF)
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2025.10.16
KLES and ENVELOPS sign a three-year agrivoltaics research MoU with Chiang Mai University (Faculty of Agriculture, ERDI)
Source · MoU on file
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2025.10.28
Jamaica CASE 50 kWp agrivoltaic plant: letter of successful commissioning received from the JPS Foundation
Source · JPS Foundation commissioning letter
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2025.11.25
Minister's Commendation, Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment (No. 466, CEO Sung Yoon), for contribution to national development through the new energy industry
Source · Korea Policy Briefing
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2025.12.11
Korean patent 10-2900687, AI-based apparatus and method for analysing crop growth and biomass
Source · Ministry of Intellectual Property patent certificate
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2026.01
Bogor (Indonesia) agrivoltaics research published in Agronomy (2026, 16(1):116): under about 35% less incident radiation, soybean yield rose 106% in the wet season and 17% in the dry season
Source · Agronomy (DOI)
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2026.08
Ovalau (Fiji) 200 kWp pilot study published in Agronomy (2026, 16(8):831): under about 60% shade, lettuce yield rose 54% and taro 14%; long bean and cucumber fell, chili and tomato set no fruit
Source · Agronomy (DOI)
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2026.04.10
Korean patent 10-2953004, AI-based apparatus and method for optimising agrivoltaic panel angles
Source · Ministry of Intellectual Property patent certificate
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2026.05
Presented business models linking Korean green technology with developing-country demand at the GGGI and GCF Joint Conference (Seoul)
Source · GGGI
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2026.07
Presented technology status and roadmap at the Agrivoltaics Future Forum 2026 (National Agricultural Museum, Suwon)
Source · Food and Climate (organiser)
Track record by institution
With whom, what, and when.
- GGGI
- Rwanda agrivoltaics preliminary study and pilot roadmap, consulting firm (2023–2024) · Ethiopia detailed feasibility study (2025)
- KOICA
- Fiji GCF project identification (2018) · GCF funding-proposal support (2019–2020) · battery storage for Ovalau
- KEITI
- Fiji 5 MW agrivoltaics pre-feasibility study (2019) · CTCN technical assistance, rainwater harvesting in Mozambique (2021)
- Korea Energy Agency
- Fiji 200 kW-class pilot (2023) · Sulawesi small-hydro feasibility study (2019–2020) · Port Antonio 1 MWp pre-feasibility study (2023–2024) · Indonesia electric two-wheeler master plan (2022–2025)
- Korea East-West Power
- Joint-development MoU for overseas agrivoltaics (2022) · Bogor 50 kW pilot (2023–2024) · CASE 50 kWp, Jamaica, with the JPS Foundation (2024–2025)
- Korea South-East Power
- Chiang Mai 25 kW Global Testbed (2026) · domestic agrivoltaic support programme (KLES and ENVELOPS track record)
- KEPCO · Korea Energy Foundation
- Domestic agrivoltaic support programmes, 21 sites and 2.1 MW (KLES and ENVELOPS track record, 2019–2024)
- JPS Foundation
- Contractor for procurement, construction and commissioning of the CASE 50 kWp agrivoltaic plant, Jamaica (2024–2025)
- Energy Fiji Limited
- 25-year power purchase agreement for the Bureta Solar Power Station, Ovalau, with project company OAS (2023)
- National Research Foundation of Korea
- CTCN technical assistance: low-carbon transport in Cambodia (2019–2020), public transport in Ethiopia (2018–2019)
- IPB University · Dalat University · Chiang Mai University · CASE
- Pilot-site partners (2023–2026)
- UN CTCN
- Network member (N0548)
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Office
ENVELOPS Co., Ltd.
303, Geoyoung Bldg, 48 Seongsu-ilro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, Korea