Tohoku Electric Power

Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc.
東北電力株式会社
Public KK
Traded as TYO: 9506
OSE: 9506
Industry Electric utility
Founded May 1, 1955
Headquarters Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Key people
Keiichi Makuta, Chairman
Hiroaki Takahashi, President
Products Electricity generation and transmission
Revenue Steady JP¥1,708,732 million (FY 2010)
Increase JP¥114,644 million (FY 2010)
Decrease JP¥-33,707 million (FY 2010)
Total assets Increase JP¥4,028,861 million (FY 2010)
Total equity Decrease JP¥876,488 million (FY 2010)
Number of employees
12,484 (2010)
Website www.Tohoku-EPCO.co.jp
Tohoku Electric Power headquarters in Aoba-ku, Sendai

Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. (東北電力株式会社 Tōhoku Denryoku Kabushiki Kaisha) 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.

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

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