Hokuriku Denryoku
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| ISIN | JP3845400005 |
| founding | May 1, 1951 |
| Seat | Toyama |
| management | Fujio Shinki ( Chairman of the Board ) |
| Number of employees | 4,638 (as of March 31, 2007) |
| sales | 485.6 billion yen (as of March 2007; $ 4.1 billion) |
| Website | Hokuriku Denryoku |
The Hokuriku Denryoku KK ( Japanese 北 陸 電力 株式会社 Hokuriku denryoku kabushiki kaisha ; literally: Electrical energy Hokuriku ; short: 北 電 , Hokuden ; English Hokuriku Electric Power Company, Incorporated ) is a Japanese energy supplier.
The service area includes the Toyama and Ishikawa prefectures in the Hokuriku region and the northern part of Fukui prefecture with the city of Tsuruga and parts of Gifu prefecture . To avoid confusion with the Hokkaidō Denryoku , the Hokuriku Denryoku is sometimes abbreviated to Rikuden ( 陸 電 ) instead of Hokuden .
history
The forerunner of the company was the Toyama Dentō ( 富山 電燈 , literally: "Electric Light Toyama", English Toyama Electric Light Company ) from 1897. It is one of the oldest electricity suppliers in Japan. The region is mountainous and is well suited for building hydropower plants.
In April 1939, shortly before the start of the Second World War , all electricity-generating companies were nationalized and in 1942 they were merged into nine state-owned companies. At the instigation of Yasuzaemon Matsunaga , chairman of the council for the reorganization of the electricity industry, the Allied occupation authorities had these nine companies privatized on May 1, 1951, one of which was the Hokuriku Denryoku. These initially retained their regional monopolies and, after the ineffective liberalization of the electricity market in 1995, regional quasi-monopolies.
Power generation
The Shika nuclear power plant is one of the company's own power plants .
| Art | Megawatts (2005) | Works |
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| Hydro | 1,816 | 115 |
| Thermal | 4,400 | 6th |
| Nuclear | 1,898 | 1 |
| Others | 1,200 | ? |
Incidents
In March 2007, the company was forced to admit that it had falsified reports. The fact that in 1999 the Shika power plant was out of control for 15 minutes because workers accidentally pulled control rods out instead of in was kept silent.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Takeo Kikkawa: The Role of Matsunaga Yasuzaemon in the Development of Japan's Electric Power Industry . In: Social Science Japan Journal . Vol. 9, No. 2 , 2006, p. 204-206 , doi : 10.1093 / ssjj / jyl032 .
- ↑ Paul Scalise: Whatever Happened to Japan's Energy Deregulation? Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), June 24, 2009, accessed May 10, 2011 .
- ^ Japan Energy Data, Statistics and Analysis - Oil, Gas, Electricity, Coal. (No longer available online.) In: Country Analysis Briefs. US Energy Information Administration, Department of Energy , September 2010, archived from the original on April 15, 2011 ; accessed on May 10, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Installed Capacity. ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Fact Book 2006
