As the heat that is unbearable without air conditioning continues, electricity consumption is at an all-time high. If this goes on like 10 years ago, there was even a saying that it would be possible to cut off electricity by region.
Reporter Jung Jun-ho reports.
At 5 pm, when electricity demand is at its highest during the day.
The KPX employees who are responsible for supply and demand of electricity stare intently at the status board.
Fortunately, yesterday (the 8th) was lower than the day before, so the number did not rise significantly, but these days, it is a series of tensions.
Even then, the peak demand for electricity soared to an all-time high of 92,990 megawatts in the summer.
The reserve ratio, which represents the remaining percentage of electricity produced by the power plant, also recorded 7.2%, falling below the safety line of 10%.
The government expected this to happen in the second week of August, the hottest week, but the emergency came more than a month earlier.
Park Il-joon, 2nd Vice Minister of Industry and Trade, said that in this state, in mid-August, the ‘circular power outage’ that was used in 2011 can be restarted.
It means that you can turn off electricity at home and in stores by region.
In order to prevent this situation, we even made a plan to restart an old coal power plant that had been stopped.
However, it is a burden to reduce the efficiency of solar power generation due to cloudy weather.
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Although it will rain all over the country next week, the demand for electricity is not expected to decrease significantly as the humidity is high and the temperature is higher than normal.
