Kyushu Electric Power

Kyushu Denryoku K. K. (Japanese九州 电力 株式会社, Kyushu Denryoku kabushiki - gaisha; literally: Kyushu Electric Power; short .九 电, Kyuden; engl Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc.) is one of the 10 Japanese utilities.

The service area is the island of Kyūshū region with the prefectures of Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki and Kagoshima.

History

Shortly before the Second World War, all power generating companies were nationalized in April 1939 and 1942 grouped into nine state-owned enterprises. At the instigation of Yasuzaemon Matsunaga, chairman of the Council on the reorganization of the electricity industry, leaving the Allied occupation authorities, these nine companies privatize May 1, 1951 one of which was the Kyushu Denryoku. This initially retained their regional monopolies and from the ineffective liberalization of the electricity market in 1995 regional quasi- monopolies.

In November 2005 Kyuden began to supply the city of Hiroshima with electricity. Since the opening of the Japanese electricity market Kyuden is the first supplier that sold over its traditional territory beyond current.

Power generation

The power plants of the company include the Genkai nuclear power plants and Sendai.