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Energy in North Korea describes
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Energy in North Korea describes energy
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and electricity
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production, consumption and import in North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and T ...
.
North Korea is a net energy exporter. Primary energy use
Energy consumption is the amount of energy used.
Biology
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in North Korea was 224 TWh and 9 TWh per million people in 2009.2011 IEA Key energy statistics 2011Page: Country specific indicator numbers from page 48 The country's primary sources of power are
coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen.
Coal is formed when ...
and hydro
Hydro from Ancient Greek word ὕδωρ (húdōr), meaning ''water''.
Hydro may also refer to:
Energy technologies
* Water-derived power or energy:
** Hydropower, derived from water
** Hydroelectricity, in electrical form
* "Hydro", AC mains ...
, after Kim Jong-il implemented plans that saw the construction of large hydroelectric power stations across the country.
According to the 2019 CIA World Factbook, only 26% of North Korea’s population has access to electricity. Many households are restricted to 2 hours' power per day due to priority being given to manufacturing plants.
Overview
Per capita electricity consumption
According to statistics compiled by the South Korean agency, Statistics Korea, based on International Energy Agency (IEA) data, per capita electricity consumption fell from its peak in 1990 of 1247 kilowatt hours to a low of 712 kilowatt hours in 2000. It has slowly risen since to 819 kilowatt hours in 2008, a level below that of 1970. In 2017 many homes were using small standalone photovoltaic systems. In 2019 it was estimated 55% of North Korean households used solar panels. By 2019, electricity production had reached a level where any supply blackouts were of relatively short durations.Oil imports
North Korea imports crude oil from an agingpipeline
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that originates in Dandong, China. The crude oil is refined at the Ponghwa Chemical Factory in Sinuiju
Sinŭiju (''Sinŭiju-si'', ; known before 1925 in English as Yeng Byen City) is a city in North Korea which faces Dandong, Liaoning, China across the international border of the Yalu River. It is the capital of North P'yŏngan province. Part of ...
, North Korea. North Korea has a smaller oil refinery, the Sŭngri Refinery, on its Russian border. The country had been able to import oil from China and the Soviet Union
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for below market prices, but with the end of the Cold War, these deals were not renewed, leading to an explosive rise in oil prices for Pyongyang and a drop in imports.
North Korea imports jet fuel, diesel fuel
Diesel fuel , also called diesel oil, is any liquid fuel specifically designed for use in a diesel engine, a type of internal combustion engine in which fuel ignition takes place without a spark as a result of compression of the inlet air and ...
, and gasoline
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from two refineries in Dalian, China, which arrive at the North Korean port of Nampo.
Power facilities
North Korea is reliant on hydro power, which leads to shortages inwinter
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, when there is little rainfall and ice blocks the flow of rivers.
Power plants that were never completed/ started up are shown in
See also
*Mining in North Korea Mining in North Korea is important to the country's economy. North Korea is naturally abundant in metals such as magnesite, zinc, tungsten, and iron; with magnesite resources of 6 billion tonnes (second largest in the world), particularly in the N ...
*Nuclear power in North Korea
North Korea (DPRK) has been active in developing nuclear technology since the 1950s.
Although the country currently has no operational power-generating nuclear reactor, efforts at developing its nuclear power sector continue. Moreover, North K ...
*Economy of North Korea
The economy of North Korea is a centrally planned economy, following '' Juche'', where the role of market allocation schemes is limited, although increasing. , North Korea continues its basic adherence to a centralized command economy. With a ...
References
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