North Korea Feels 'Power Shortage' as Families Save Electricity for National Grid...

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] North Korea, suffering from chronic power shortages, has developed a device that sends some of the electricity produced by solar power at home to the national power grid.

The external propaganda media 'Chosun Today' detailed this utilization status on the 25th in a dialogue between the director of the Natural Energy Research Institute of the National Academy of Sciences and a reporter from the Pyongyang Moranbong editorial office.

The media reported, "Scientific research projects to actively develop and utilize natural energy sources such as wind power, tidal power, and biomass have been intensifying for a long time."

Among them, the device called the 'Grid-Parallel Inverter,' produced by the Solar Cell Manufacturing Laboratory at Kim Il-sung University, attracted attention. The media explained, "When the electricity produced by solar power at homes or institutions is used and the surplus is fed into the national power grid using the grid-parallel inverter, a micro power generation system operates."

This means that homes or institutions send some of the electricity produced by solar power generators to the national power grid, allowing an estimation of North Korea's power shortage situation. The media stated, "The advantage of the grid-parallel power generation system lies in consumers becoming producers and contributing to the country's power production."