North Korea''s Energy Sector: Notable Solar Installations
In the last installment of our series on North Korea''s energy sector, we looked at state development of solar power and panels and discussed how solar was beginning to
Jeong-hyeon, a North Korean escapee, told the Financial Times that many residents in Hamhung, the second-most populous city, “relied on a solar panel, a battery and a power generator to light their houses and power their television”. But solar power is still only a partial solution to the country's energy woes.
The Science and Technology Complex (과학기술전당) on Ssuk Islet in Pyongyang was opened by Kim Jong Un in October 2015 and contains study halls with hundreds of computers. There are also lecture halls, auxiliary buildings focused on different science disciplines and a dormitory building for visiting scientists.
“We would turn the light on when we ate and then we turned it off right away.” North Korea's ramshackle electricity grid draws on ageing hydro and coal-fired thermal power stations, many of them built during the cold war with Chinese and Soviet assistance. UN sanctions restrict the regime's imports of refined oil and petroleum products.
The Kumsanpho Fishery Station Solar Power Station (금산포수산사업소 자연에네르기발전소) was constructed in 2016 and consists of approximately 2,880 solar panels occupying a 400-meter by 40-meter-wide plot on a narrow strip of land near Cholsan. There is also a large wind turbine on site. Figure 6.
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