SK Innovation

Seoul, South Korea
Active
SFR

Company overview

Founded
1962
Total funding
Public company (KRX: 096770) — largest private energy company in Asia-Pacific after SK E&S merger
Technology
SFR — Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor

About

SK Innovation is a Korean energy and materials conglomerate that became the largest private energy company in the Asia-Pacific region after its major merger with SK E&S in November 2024. SK Innovation is an original TerraPower shareholder and sold part of its stake to KHNP in January 2026 — enabling the first Korean public energy company investment in an SMR developer. SK Innovation combines energy expertise with materials science to develop integrated SMR-plus-energy-solutions for data centres and industrial sites in Korea and globally.

Key investors

SK Group

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