據油氣新聞7月9日消息稱，周三的一份報告稱，受新冠疫情影響，韓國的能源需求預計將在2020年連續第二年下降。

韓國能源經濟研究所的報告顯示，今年韓國的年度能源消費量可能同比下降1.4%。

去年，這個亞洲第四大經濟體的總體能源消耗同比下降了1.3％，至3.035億噸油當量（TOE），這是該國自二十多年前外匯危機以來的首次下降。

早些時候，在韓國經濟增長加快和其他積極因素的推動下，預計韓國的能源消費今年將出現反彈。

根據該報告，該國對煤炭和石油的需求預計將在2020年分別比一年前減少7.7%和1%。

政府減少燃煤電廠發電的努力預計將減少對無煙煤和煙煤的需求。

相比之下，核能和天然氣的消費量預計將分別增長12.2%和1%。

曹海斌 摘譯自 油氣新聞

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.