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ELECTRICITY

BUSINESS
Mar 10, 2015
More than 60% want to change home electric supplier after liberalization, survey suggests
Some 64 percent of people responding to an online survey say they want to change their electric power supplier when the household market is freed up in April 2016 and new entrants are allowed.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 2, 2015
Massive power blackout hits Nagano Prefecture
An estimated 380,000 homes in Nagano Prefecture lose power for three hours in Chubu Electric Power Co.'s service area.
BUSINESS
Feb 18, 2015
Britain approves world's largest offshore wind farm
Britain's energy ministry has approved the Dogger Bank Creyke Beck offshore wind project, the world's biggest offshore wind park, it said in a statement on Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 5, 2015
Kansai business leaders push for economic recovery ahead of rising power prices
Kansai's annual gathering of major corporate leaders opened Thursday in Kyoto with vows to accelerate economic recovery efforts, even as the chairman of the Kansai Economic Federation warned that spring electricity price hikes would exceed 10 percent.
BUSINESS
Jan 14, 2015
Reactor decommissioning costs to be passed to all power users
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry decided Wednesday that the cost to nuclear plant operators of decommissioning reactors should be passed on to all electricity users in principle even after the electricity market is fully opened to newcomers in 2016.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 8, 2015
Mineral may lead to better, cheaper solar cells
Materials that may be cheaper and more efficient than silicon at converting the sun's rays into electricity could be key to the next generation of solar power, scientists say.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 5, 2015
Chubu Electric eyeing more business in Tokyo area
Chubu Electric Power Co. envisions engaging in electricity retailing and other business operations in the Tokyo area, expanding from the utility's traditional service area, company President Akihisa Mizuno has said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 2, 2015
Nuclear motive suspected in feed-in tariff reforms
Renewable power in Japan wavers as critics flag “reforms” to the feed-in tariff system as a bid to discourage the scorching growth of renewable energy providers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 24, 2014
Kansai Electric applies for household rate hike
Kansai Electric Power Co., blaming higher fossil fuel costs, applied to the government Wednesday for permission to raise its rates for households by 10.23 percent on average starting in April.
JAPAN
Dec 22, 2014
Experts say faults at nuclear plant in northeast Japan could be active
A panel advising the Nuclear Regulation Authority said Monday it can't rule out the possibility that key geological faults running under the Higashidori nuclear power plant in Aomori Prefecture are active.
JAPAN
Dec 18, 2014
Japan suggests nuclear decommissioning costs be passed to all power customers
The government says reactor decommissioning costs ought to be passed on to all customers even after the electricity market is opened to newcomers in 2016.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 16, 2014
Seven utilities only capable of accepting 58% of solar power energy
A study has found that seven of the nation's utilities lack the transmission network capacity to accept all of the solar power energy that suppliers plan to generate under the feed-in tariff system, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2014
Blackout leaves bullet train riders in the cold in Niigata
Heavy snow caused a power outage along parts of the Joetsu Shinkansen Line for about six hours on Sunday morning, leaving some 300 passengers trapped in a bullet train for 2½ hours near the mountainous southern border of Niigata Prefecture.
BUSINESS
Dec 5, 2014
Tepco unlikely to raise prices again in 2014
Tokyo Electric Power Co. will likely forgo another price hike before the March 31 end of fiscal 2014 because it plans to cut costs further, sources familiar with the matter said Friday.
BUSINESS
Oct 15, 2014
Green energy tariffs draw scrutiny
A committee involved with the nation's energy policy met Wednesday to discuss revisions to the 2-year-old feed-in tariff system for renewable energy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 10, 2014
Hokkaido Electric to execute second price hike in November
Hokkaido Electric Power Co. will raise electricity prices for households on Nov. 1, the industry ministry said Friday, as rising fossil fuel costs weigh on the utility's earnings following the loss of nuclear power.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2014
Clean energy boom challenges power grid
Four regional utilities stopped signing contracts to buy renewable energy from big solar power plants and other suppliers starting Wednesday, limiting an influx that is testing the nation's electricity grid.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 27, 2014
Chugoku Electric mulls selling power outside service area
Chugoku Electric Power Co. is considering selling electricity outside its service area like other utilities as Japan moves to fully liberalize its power market around April 2016, company sources said Saturday.
EDITORIALS
Sep 19, 2014
Liberalizing the power market
Legislation enacted in June will end the decades-long monopoly of Japan's regional utility companies by liberalizing the retail sale of electricity to households in 2016.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 27, 2014
Tepco to provide power to Yamada Denki's Kansai, Chubu stores: NHK
Tokyo Electric Power Co. will start providing electricity to Yamada Denki Co.'s stores in the Kansai and Chubu regions in October, NHK reported Wednesday.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
Some investors are warning that a yen rally is fragile, as was on show this week when the yen rapidly retraced an advance after Thursday’s stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures.
Japan's average life expectancy rises for first time in three years
A decline in COVID-19-caused deaths likely helped boost the average life expectancy for Japanese men and women to rise for the first time in three years in 2023.
The Japanese Olympians looking to shine in Paris
Rim Nakamura, who is attempting to win Japan's first Olympic gold medal in cycling, will be one of the top Japanese athletes to watch at the Paris Games.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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