Electricity Use Hits All-time High in July amid Heat Wave

SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s electricity consumption reached a record monthly high last month, as the country was gripped by a sweltering heat wave, the power operator said Tuesday. The country’s average maximum power consumption came to 82,007 megawatts (MW) in July, up 1 percent from a year earlier, according to the [...]