Tōhoku Denryoku
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| ISIN | JP3605400005 |
| founding | May 1, 1951 |
| Seat | Sendai |
| management | Keiichi Makuta ( Chairman of the Board ) |
| Number of employees | 12,110 (as of end of 2006) |
| sales | $ 14.66 billion (2006) |
| Website | Tōhoku Denryoku |
Tōhoku Denryoku KK ( Japanese 東北 電力 株式会社 Tōhoku denryoku kabushiki kaisha ; literally: electrical energy Tōhoku ; short: 東北 電 , Tōhokuden ; English Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. ) is one of the ten Japanese energy suppliers.
The supply area includes the Tōhoku region with the prefectures of Aomori , Iwate , Akita , Miyagi , Yamagata and Fukushima , as well as neighboring Niigata .
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 , the chairman of the council for the reorganization of the electricity industry, the Allied occupation authorities let these nine companies privatize on May 1, 1951, one of which was the Tōhoku Denryoku. These initially retained their regional monopolies and, after the ineffective liberalization of the electricity market in 1995, regional quasi-monopolies.
In 2006 the company reached position 462 on the Fortune Global 500 list and was number 21 among utilities.
Power generation
The company primarily operates a 50-hertz network, so there are good connections to Tepco , who “look after” the neighboring area and also have a 50-hertz network.
The company's power plants also include the Onagawa and Higashidōri nuclear power plants .
In March 2007, the company had to admit that an emergency shutdown had occurred during maintenance work on Onagawa 1 and the responsible authorities were not informed.
| Art | Megawatts (2005) |
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| Hydro | 2,420 |
| Thermal | 10,926 |
| Nuclear | 3,270 |
Web links
Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. (English)
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.
- ↑ Fortune 500 (2006)
- ↑ http://www10.antenna.nl/wise/653/brief.php
