Tohoku_Electric_Power_Company

Tohoku Electric Power

Tohoku Electric Power

Japanese electric utility company

Not to be confused with Tokyo Electric Power Company.

Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. (東北電力株式会社, Tōhoku Denryoku Kabushiki Gaisha) is an electric utility, servicing 7.6 million individual and corporate customers in six prefectures in Tōhoku region plus Niigata Prefecture. It provides electricity at 100 V, 50 Hz, though some area use 60 Hz.

Quick Facts Company type, Traded as ...

Tohoku Electric Power is the fourth-largest electric utility in Japan in terms of revenue, behind TEPCO, KEPCO and Chubu Electric Power.

Shareholders

Accidents

On 11 March 2011, several nuclear reactors in Japan were badly damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. In the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant a fire broke out in the turbine section of the plant.[1]

In order to make up for the loss of electricity from the damaged reactor plant, Tohoku announced it would restart a mothballed natural gas power plant. The liquefied natural gas and oil-fired No. 1 unit at the Higashi Niigata plant in Niigata prefecture has a 350-megawatt capacity and could be in operation by early June 2011.[2]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Mogi, Chikako (11 March 2011). "Fire at Tohoku Elec Onagawa nuclear plant". Reuters. Kyodo | Reuters. Retrieved March 13, 2011.
  2. [2]
    People's Daily, "Japanese power company not to start rolling blackouts in quake, tsunami-hit region", 25 March 2011.


Stub icon

This article about a Japanese corporation- or company-related topic is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Tohoku_Electric_Power_Company, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.