Okinawa Electric Power Company
Okinawa Denryoku K. K. (Japanese冲 縄 电力 株式会社, Okinawa Kabushiki kaisha Denryoku; literally: Okinawa Electric Power; short :冲 电, Okiden; engl The Okinawa Electric Power Company, Incorporated, in short: ÖPC. ) is the youngest of the major Japanese power company.
Power generation
She is in charge of the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa Prefecture. It is about 150 large and small islands, 39 of which are inhabited. This means a huge logistical problem, as the islands are scattered over a vast area of 1000 km by 400 km and a cable connection - as a safety - to the mainland, therefore, can not exist.
As of 2012, the gas power plant Yoshinoura to go into operation. The plant will then supply about 10 % extra. On smaller islands of the electricity is produced by diesel generators and gas turbines.
History
In the period from 1945 to 1972, the Ryukyu Islands, which Daitō Islands under American administration ( USCAR ). The Americans set up some businesses that supply for the inhabitants of the islands and the American military, including the Ryukyu Denryoku (琉球 电力 公社, Ryukyu Denryoku kosha, literally: " Public Company Electric Power Ryukyu " ), the Ryukyu Domestic Water Corporation and the Bank of the Ryukyus. With the formal handover of the islands on 15 May 1972 from the Okinawa Ryukyu Denryoku Denryoku. 1976 were taken over five other smaller suppliers. On 1 October 1988, the company was privatized and is one of the 10 major energy suppliers in Japan who hold regional quasi- monopolies.