Hokuriku Electric Power Company

The Hokuriku Denryoku K. K. (Japanese北 陆 电力 株式会社, Hokuriku Denryoku kabushiki - gaisha; literally: Hokuriku Electric Power; short .北 电, Hokuden; engl Hokuriku Electric Power Company, Incorporated ) is a Japanese power company.

The service area includes the region Hokuriku prefectures Toyama Prefecture Ishikawa Prefecture and as well as the northern part of Fukui Prefecture me the city of Tsuruga and parts of Gifu Prefecture. To avoid confusion with the Hokkaido Denryoku the Hokuriku Denryoku instead Hokuden is sometimes also with Rikuden (陆 电) abbreviated.

History

Predecessor of the company was to Toyama Dento (富山 电灯, literally: " Electric light Toyama ," engl Toyama Electric Light Company. ) Of 1897, making it one of the oldest suppliers of electricity in Japan.. The region is mountainous and is well suited for the construction of hydroelectric power plants.

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 Hokuriku Denryoku. This initially retained their regional monopolies and from the ineffective liberalization of the electricity market in 1995 regional quasi- monopolies.

Power generation

The power plants of the company includes the Shika nuclear power plant.

Incidents

In March 2007, the company had to admit to have falsified reports. So was concealed, that in 1999 the power station Shika was 15 minutes out of control because workers had accidentally control rods rather than purely driven out.