Electricity sales by the nation’s 10 major power suppliers in December dropped 1.3 percent from a year earlier to 67.885 billion kilowatt-hours, down for the eighth month in a row, an industry group said on Friday. Sales to large-lot industrial users fell 0.5 percent ...
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. The controversial scheme ...
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. Though years away from being used to commercially produce solar cells, perovskites, named for a ...
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. A tie-up agreement with Tokyo Electric Power Co. will help Chubu Electric “hold down ...
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.
Crimea on Wednesday suffered massive blackouts after Ukraine unexpectedly stopped supplies, sparking traffic jams, hospital closures and panic across the peninsula. Train stations, businesses and the airport had to close down, traffic lights went dark causing huge snarls in the main city of Simferopol, ...
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. The utility, which relied heavily on nuclear power before the 2011 Fukushima crisis, last ...
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. This won’t immediately force Tohoku Electric Power Co. to scrap the sole reactor ...
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. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Wednesday the proposal would help facilitate the scrapping of aging reactors ...
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. Combined, they ...
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. East Japan Railway Co. ...
Kansai Electric Power Co. eyes raising electricity rates for households more than 10 percent next spring.
