Kansai Denryoku
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| ISIN | JP3228600007 |
| founding | May 1, 1951 |
| Seat | Osaka , Japan |
| management | Shōsuke Mori ( Chairman of the Board ) |
| Number of employees | 33,539 |
| sales | 3406.0 billion JPY 26.4 billion EUR |
| Website | www.kepco.co.jp |
| As of March 31, 2015 | |
Kansai Denryoku KK ( Japanese 関 西 電力 株式会社 , Kansai denryoku kabushiki kaisha ; literally: Electrical Energy Kansai , short: 関 電 , Kanden ; English The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. , short: KEPCO) is listed in the Nikkei 225 Energy company providing electricity in the Kansai region of Japan . Customers include more than thirteen million residents in this region. In 2015 the company employed almost 34,000 people. Sales were more than $ 28 billion.
Due to the English abbreviation and the industry, there is often confusion with the Korean energy supplier Korea Electric Power Corporation .
history
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 Kansai Denryoku. These initially retained their regional monopolies and, after the ineffective liberalization of the electricity market in 1995, regional quasi-monopolies.
Operation of nuclear power plants
Kansai Denryoku is one of the major nuclear power plant operators in Japan. Before the Fukushima nuclear disaster , the company operated eleven reactors at the Mihama , Oi and Takahama sites . Between 2015 and 2017, the company shut down four of its reactors while restarting four more. Three more reactors, Mihama 3 and Takahama 1 and 2, have been given 20-year service life extensions , are being extensively modernized and are due to be restarted in 2020/21 as the oldest active reactors in Japan.
Incidents
On August 9, 2004, the company reported four deaths among its employees who were killed in an incident at the Mihama Nuclear Power Plant in Fukui Prefecture . According to the company, there was no radioactive leak in this incident.
On March 22, 2006, two workers were injured in a fire that lasted four hours.
Web links
- Official company website (Japanese, English)
- Kansai CNN Money (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b KEPCO 2015 Corporate Report , accessed on August 7, 2016
- ↑ Converted at the rate on the balance sheet date, March 31, 2015
- ^ 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.
