Tohoku Electric Power

Tohoku Denryoku K. K. (Japanese东北 电力 株式会社, Tohoku Denryoku kabushiki - gaisha; literally: Tohoku Electric Power; short .东北 电, Tōhokuden; engl Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc.) is one of the ten Japanese utilities.

The service area includes the Tōhoku region with the prefectures of Aomori, Iwate, Akita, Miyagi, Yamagata and Fukushima, as well as the neighboring Niigata.

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

Power generation

The company operates primarily a 50 -hertz power, so there are good connections to Tepco, which attend the neighboring area and also have a 50 -hertz power.

The power plants of the company include the Onagawa nuclear power plants and Higashidori.

In March 2007, the company had to admit that it had come as part of maintenance of Onagawa 1 to an emergency stop and the authorities were not informed.