High Energy Demand

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With hot humid days and tropical nights broiling the country for weeks now, electricity demand has skyrocketed. The heavy load on the nation’s energy infrastructure has resulted in blackouts.

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Residents of this apartment building in Nowon-gu District, Seoul, had to spend a quite sweltering night on Tuesday due to a blackout. The power outage caused by overload in the power transformer left some 600 households without electricity. More than three thousand households in another apartment building in the same neighborhood also experienced a blackout that lasted three to four hours. Some of the residents were outraged by a delay in power supply restoration. Six people were trapped in an elevator in an apartment complex in Songpa-gu District in southern Seoul due to a power outage. With electricity demand skyrocketing lately because of the scorching heat, blackouts are expected to continue at nighttime until the weather cools down.