NGA Tearline: North Korea’s Hydroelectric Power – The Tanchon Power Station Project

To help meet its electrical energy needs, North Korea has placed great emphasis on the use of hydropower. One strategy to improve this sector has been to shift focus from large-scale dams and hydropower plants to smaller ones, arranged in tiers.

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To help meet its electrical energy needs, North Korea has placed great emphasis on the use of hydropower. One strategy to improve this sector has been to shift focus from large-scale dams and hydropower plants to smaller ones, arranged in tiers.
 

In the northeast, hydropower plants employ another strategy for improving hydroelectric power generation: the water supply that drives their turbines does not come from an adjacent source, but is received through a complex series of large reservoirs and a vast, integrated system of waterway tunnels.

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