In this regard, Han Kyong Jin, department director of the Ministry of Electric Power Industry, told KCNA:

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un stressed in his New Year Address that one of the most important and pressing tasks in socialist economic construction for this year is to radically increase the production of electricity.

Reflected in the address are his deep trust and expectation in the officials and workers engaged in the electric power industry.

Now the thermal power plants across the country are striving to raise the electric-power production to the peak year level by increasing the number of operating generating equipment and keeping them at full-capacity operation.

A brisk work has been conducted to introduce technologies for stabilizing the high temperature air combustion into all the boilers and igniting powdered anthracite and stabilizing combustion by oxygen into production.

Meanwhile, large-scale hydraulic power stations direct big efforts to putting generating equipment into good shape and reinforcing various structures.

In particular, the hydraulic structures of Pujongang, Huichon and Kumyagang Army-People power stations were repaired to additionally turn out electricity of tens of thousands of kilowatts.

And the introduction of modern digital speed regulator, exciter and integrated protective device into hydraulic power stations helps further perfect the computer integrated manufacturing and raise the generating efficiency.