韩国今年能源需求预计将下降1.4％

据油气新闻7月9日消息称，周三的一份报告称，受新冠疫情影响，韩国的能源需求预计将在2020年连续第二年下降。

韩国能源经济研究所的报告显示，今年韩国的年度能源消费量可能同比下降1.4%。

去年，这个亚洲第四大经济体的总体能源消耗同比下降了1.3％，至3.035亿吨油当量（TOE），这是该国自二十多年前外汇危机以来的首次下降。

早些时候，在韩国经济增长加快和其他积极因素的推动下，预计韩国的能源消费今年将出现反弹。

根据该报告，该国对煤炭和石油的需求预计将在2020年分别比一年前减少7.7%和1%。

政府减少燃煤电厂发电的努力预计将减少对无烟煤和烟煤的需求。

相比之下，核能和天然气的消费量预计将分别增长12.2%和1%。

曹海斌 摘译自 油气新闻

Korea’s energy demand predicted to dip 1.4 pct this year

South Korea’s energy demand is expected to drop for a second year in 2020 due to the fallout from the coronavirus outbreak, a report said Wednesday.

The country’s annual energy consumption is likely to contract 1.4 percent on-year this year, according to the report from the Korea Energy Economics Institute.

Last year, overall energy consumption in Asia’s fourth-largest economy fell 1.3 percent on-year to 303.5 million tons of oil equivalent (TOE), the first decline since the country’s foreign exchange crisis some two decades earlier.

South Korea’s energy consumption had earlier been projected to bounce back this year, bolstered by a rise in the country’s economic growth and other positive factors.

According to the report, the country’s demand for coal and oil is predicted to shrink 7.7 percent and 1 percent, respectively, in 2020 from a year earlier, respectively.

Government efforts to reduce electricity generation from coal-fired power plants are expected to sap demand for anthracite and bituminous coal.

In contrast, consumption of nuclear energy and natural gas is forecast to increase 12.2 percent and 1 percent, respectively.