Power-starved North Korea turns to solar energy to keep the lights on

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% :Renewable energy has also provided an opportunity to extract money from UN climate programmes.
54% : North Korea is increasingly turning to solar power to help meet its energy needs, as the isolated regime seeks to reduce its dependence on imported fossil fuels amid chronic power shortages.
52% : David von Hippel, a senior associate at the Nautilus Institute in California who has worked on renewable energy projects in North Korea, said Pyongyang's interest dated back to the 1990s when the country suffered power shortages in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
44% : But solar power is still only a partial solution to the country's energy woes.

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