New plant provides half of NKorean capital's power

Published November 20, 2014

North Korean officials say a massive hydoelectric power plant open two months now can provide half of Pyongyang's energy needs.

But the general manager of the Huichon (HEE' chuhn) No. 2 Power Station says drought has left the river above the dam too low for the plant to reach full capacity.

General Manger Kim Su Gil gave foreign journalists a tour of the power station in Huichon on Thursday. It's North Korea's largest construction project since the 1980s and is expected to be expanded to 12 stations by 2015.

North Korea suffers a widespread lack of electricity and has turned to hydoelectric power to supplement diminishing supplies of coal.

The plant is in Jagang province about 175 kilometers northwest of the capital.

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