Chubu Electric Power
Chūbu Denryoku K. K. (Japanese中部 电力 株式会社, Chūbu Denryoku kabushiki - gaisha; literally: Chubu Electric Power; short .中 电, Chuden; engl Chubu Electric Power Company, Incorporated ) is one of the big electricity companies in Japan.
The service area consists of the prefectures Mie, Aichi, Gifu, Nagano and Shizuoka west of the River Fuji. The river is the border between the line frequency of the Japanese electricity grid of 50 hertz in the east and 60 in the west.
From the company including the Hamaoka nuclear power plant is operated.
In addition, also the Honorary Consulate of Germany is located there.
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 Allies occupation authorities these nine companies privatize May 1, 1951 one of which was the Chūbu Denryoku. This initially retained their regional monopolies and from the ineffective liberalization of the electricity market in 1995 regional quasi- monopolies.
In 2006 the company achieved 380 place in the Fortune 500 and 15th place in utilities.
Honorary Consulate
Since 30 March 2007, Fumio Kawaguchi ( CEO until 2006 ) Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany for the region Nagoya. The CEO of Chuden has its Konsularsbüro in the company.