Tohoku Electric Power

Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc.
東北電力株式会社
Company typePublic KK
TYO: 9506
OSE: 9506
IndustryElectric utility
FoundedMay 1, 1955
HeadquartersAoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Key people
Keiichi Makuta, Chairman
Hiroaki Takahashi, President
ProductsElectricity generation and transmission
RevenueSteady JP¥1,708,732 million (FY 2010)
Increase JP¥114,644 million (FY 2010)
Decrease JP¥-33,707 million (FY 2010)
Total assetsIncrease JP¥4,028,861 million (FY 2010)
Total equityDecrease JP¥876,488 million (FY 2010)
Number of employees
12,484 (2010)
Websitewww.Tohoku-EPCO.co.jp

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.

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

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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]

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References

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  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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