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Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.

The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.
Native name
関西電力株式会社
Public kabushiki gaisha
Traded as :
OSE: 9503
: 9503
TOPIX Large 70 Component
Industry Electric utility
Predecessor
  • Kansai Haiden
  • Nippon Hassoden KK
Founded Osaka, Japan (1 May 1951 (1951-05-01))
Headquarters Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
Area served
  • Kansai region (ex. Fukuura and Ako in Hyogo Prefecture)
  • West of Mihama in Fukui Prefecture
  • Southern area of Mie Prefecture
  • Part of the area of Sekigahara, Gifu Prefecture
Key people
  • Shosuke Mori (Chair)
  • Makoto Yagi (President)
Products Electrical power
Revenue Increase ¥2,811,424 million (FY 2011)
Decrease ¥-229,388 million (FY 2011)
Profit Decrease ¥-242,257 million (FY 2011)
Total assets Increase ¥7,521,352 million (FY 2011)
Total equity Decrease ¥1,529,843 million (FY 2011)
Owner
Number of employees
32,961 (consolidated, as of 31 March 2012)
Subsidiaries
  • Kanden-el-farm, Inc.
  • Kanden Energy Development Co., Inc.
  • Kanden Energy Solution Co., Inc.
  • Kansai Multimedia Service Company
  • Kanden System Solutions Co., Inc.
  • K-Opticom Corporation
  • Kinden Corporation
Website www.kepco.co.jp/english/
Footnotes / references

The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. (関西電力株式会社, Kansai Denryoku Kabushiki-gaisha, KEPCO), also known as Kanden (関電), is an electric utility with its operational area of Kansai region, Japan (including the Kobe-Osaka-Kyoto megalopolis).

The Kansai region is Japan’s second-largest industrial area, and in normal times, its most nuclear-reliant. Before the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a band of 11 nuclear reactors — north of the major cities Osaka and Kyoto — supplied almost 50 percent of the region’s power.

As of January 2012, only one of those reactors was still running. In March 2012, the last reactor was taken off the powergrid.

Kansai Electric Power Company has 164 plants with a total production capacity of 35,760 MW.

On 9 August 2004, KEPCO reported that five of its employees were killed by a steam burst in the turbines housing building, at the Mihama Nuclear Power Plant in Fukui Prefecture. The burst, according to KEPCO, was due to the neglect of mandated safety checks and there was no release of radioactivity.

On 22 March 2006, in Ōi Nuclear Power Plant, at the waste incineration facility area, where ash is packed in steel barrels, a fire broke out. Two workers were admitted to a hospital after inhaling smoke, but not in critical condition. No radiation leakage was monitored.

The Kansai region is Japan’s second-largest industrial area, and in normal times, its most nuclear-reliant. Before the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a band of 11 nuclear reactors — north of the major cities Osaka and Kyoto — supplied almost 50 percent of the region’s power. But as of January 2012, only one of those reactors is still running. Meanwhile, power company employees are racing to reassure Japanese that plants are safe and necessary. In 2012, officials from Kansai Electric Power Co., "have gone door to door in towns that host its nuclear plants, conducting polls and answering questions".


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