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[Breaking News]TEPCO to reboot 1st reactor since Fukushima disaster

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 25 Kyodo - Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. President Tomoaki Kobayakawa speaks at a press conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 24, 2025. TEPCO plans to restart the No. 6 unit at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear complex in Niigata Prefecture on Jan. 20, the utility's first reactor reboot since the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex. (Kyodo)

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NAMIBIA-WINDHOEK-BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM

(231214) -- WINDHOEK, Dec. 14, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Shandong Electrical Engineering & Equipment Group representative Jin Bei (C) speaks at the signing ceremony of the utility-scale Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in Windhoek, Namibia, Dec. 13, 2023. Namibia's power utility, NamPower, on Wednesday signed an agreement with two Chinese companies for the development of the country's first 54MW/54MWH utility-scale BESS. TO GO WITH "First utility-scale battery energy storage system to be developed in Namibia" (Xinhua/Chen Cheng)

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Kyushu Electric stresses need for successful reactor restart

FUKUOKA, Japan - Michiaki Uriu, president of Kyushu Electric Power Co., delivers a New Year address to company officials at the utility's head office in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 5, 2015. He stressed that Kyushu Electric must be successful in reactivating its Sendai nuclear power plant in Kagoshima Prefecture, possibly in March, to become the first of the idled nuclear plants to restart operations in Japan after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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TEPCO logs group net profit

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose gives a press conference on the utility's earnings in the first half of fiscal 2013 at the company's head office in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2013. TEPCO reported a group net profit of 616.20 billion yen for the April-September period, swinging into the black on a half-year basis for the first time since the nuclear disaster at its Fukushima Daiichi complex in 2011.

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Kansai Electric mulling electricity rate hikes

OSAKA, Japan - Kansai Electric Power Co. President Makoto Yagi is pictured during a press conference at the utility's head office in the city of Osaka on Oct. 29, 2012. Yagi said Kansai Electric is considering hiking electricity charges for all of its customers, increasing the likelihood it will become the first utility after Tokyo Electric Power Co. to resort to such action to address business conditions following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis.

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Kansai Electric mulling electricity rate hikes

OSAKA, Japan - Kansai Electric Power Co. President Makoto Yagi is pictured during a press conference at the utility's head office in the city of Osaka on Oct. 29, 2012. Yagi said Kansai Electric is considering hiking electricity charges for all of its customers, increasing the likelihood it will become the first utility after Tokyo Electric Power Co. to resort to such action to address business conditions following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis.

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TEPCO chairman, president survey Fukushima plant

TOMIOKA, Japan - Kazuhiko Shimokobe (R), chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co., and TEPCO President Naomi Hirose (C) visit the utility's Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant in the town of Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 4, 2012. They visited the plant as well as the utility's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex for the first time since assuming their posts in late June. (Pool photo)

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Antinuclear power rally

TOKYO, Japan - Antinuclear power demonstrators march outside the head office of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in the capital on March 11, 2012, the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis at the utility's Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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Antinuclear power rally

TOKYO, Japan - Antinuclear power demonstrators march outside the head office of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in the capital on March 11, 2012, the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis at the utility's Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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TEPCO on anniversary

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Toshio Nishizawa (projected in a monitor) speaks during a meeting of employees after a moment of silence at the utility's head office in Tokyo on March 11, 2012, the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear crisis at the company's Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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Tohoku Electric launches mega-solar power plant

AOMORI, Japan - Tohoku Electric Power Co. launches commercial operation of a mega-solar power plant in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, on Dec. 20, 2011. The utility's first commercial solar power plant with a capacity of 1,500 kilowatts can produce about 1.6 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually to cover 500 households. It consists of some 10,000 solar cell panels installed on a 50,000-square-meter site.

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Tohoku Electric launches mega-solar power plant

AOMORI, Japan - Tohoku Electric Power Co. launches commercial operation of a mega-solar power plant in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, on Dec. 20, 2011. The utility's first commercial solar power plant with a capacity of 1,500 kilowatts can produce about 1.6 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually to cover 500 households. It consists of some 10,000 solar cell panels installed on a 50,000-square-meter site.

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Oi nuclear power plant

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken in July 2011 shows the Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture. Kansai Electric Power Co. aims to resume operation of the plant's No. 3 reactor (2nd from L), making it the first of the utility's seven nuclear reactors currently shut down to resume operating, sources close to the matter said Sept. 15, 2011.

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1st meeting of panel to check TEPCO's assets

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Shimokobe (L), a lawyer heading a panel of experts to check the financial status of Tokyo Electric Power Co., speaks at the first meeting of the panel at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 16, 2011. Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) told the panel to compile a report by September. The panel was launched to streamline TEPCO's operations to lessen the burden on taxpayers from the utility's enormous compensation payments over the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Goverment, TEPCO joint press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Goshi Hosono (4th from front, holding a mike), Prime Minister Naoto Kan's special adviser, speaks during the first joint press conference by the central government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. on the crisis at the utility's nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, in Tokyo on April 25, 2011. The government is aiming to release information on how Japan is dealing with the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in a more unified manner.

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Goverment, TEPCO joint press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Goshi Hosono (L), special adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, listens to a question from a reporter during the first joint press conference by the central government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. on the crisis at the utility's nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, in Tokyo on April 25, 2011. The government is aiming to release information on how Japan is dealing with the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in a more unified manner.

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Kansai Electric starts mega solar system operation

SAKAI, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 5, 2010, shows solar panels belonging to a mega solar power generation plant of Kansai Electric Power Co. located in the Sakai city waterfront area in Osaka Prefecture. The company, which started operation of the plant the same day, became the first power utility in Japan to launch commercial operations of such a large-scale solar power plant.

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Kansai Electric starts mega solar system operation

SAKAI, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 5, 2010, shows solar panels belonging to a mega solar power generation plant of Kansai Electric Power Co. located in the Sakai city waterfront area in Osaka Prefecture. The company, which started operation of the plant the same day, became the first power utility in Japan to launch commercial operations of such a large-scale solar power plant.

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Tokyo Electric falls into red for 1st time in 28 years

TOKYO, Japan - Tsunehisa Katsumata, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on April 30. The utility said it fell into the red in fiscal 2007 for the first time in 28 years, with a group net loss of 150.11 billion yen.

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Tokyo Electric to fall into red in FY 2007

TOKYO, Japan - Tsunehisa Katsumata, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., briefs reporters on the company's full-year earnings estimate for fiscal 2007 in Tokyo on Oct. 31. Japan's biggest utility is expected to fall into the red in fiscal 2007 for the first time in 28 years, affected by the shutdown of its key nuclear power reactor and rising fuel costs.

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Mitsubishi Heavy wins order from French utility

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said Aug. 24 it has won an order from Electricite de France SA for six replacement steam generators (a similar one shown in file photo) used in nuclear power generation. This is the first time for a Japanese company to win an order to supply core equipment for nuclear power reactors from the French utility.

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NE China's 400-MWh power storage utility put into operation

STORY: NE China's 400-MWh power storage utility put into operation DATELINE: Oct. 31, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:52 LOCATION: DALIAN, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Dalian Concurrent Energy Storage Power Station 2. various of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) 3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LI XIANFENG, Deputy director of the DICP 4. various of wind and photovoltaic power generating units STORYLINE: The first phase of a power storage utility with a capacity of 400 MWh was put into operation in northeast China's Dalian on Sunday. According to the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the capacity of the Dalian Concurrent Energy Storage Power Station was designed to meet the electricity demand of some 200,000 residents per day and will be doubled to 800 MWh in the future. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LI XIANFENG, Deputy director of the DICP "The energy storage technology, in our understanding, is to build a 'bank' for electricity, whe

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NAMIBIA-OMARURU-SOLAR POWER PLANT

(220624) -- OMARURU (NAMIBIA), June 24, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A person stands in front of photovoltaic panels at a photovoltaic (PV) power plant in Omaruru, the Erongo region, Namibia, on June 24, 2022. Namibian state-owned utility, NamPower on Friday inaugurated the utility's first fully owned 20MW photovoltaic (PV) power plant at an event in Omaruru in the Erongo region. (Photo by Musa C Kaseke/Xinhua)

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NAMIBIA-OMARURU-SOLAR POWER PLANT

(220624) -- OMARURU (NAMIBIA), June 24, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People attend an event for the inauguration of a photovoltaic (PV) power plant in Omaruru, the Erongo region, Namibia, on June 24, 2022. Namibian state-owned utility, NamPower on Friday inaugurated the utility's first fully owned 20MW photovoltaic (PV) power plant at an event in Omaruru in the Erongo region. (Photo by Musa C Kaseke/Xinhua)

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Mitsubishi Heavy wins order from French utility

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said Aug. 24 it has won an order from Electricite de France SA for six replacement steam generators (a similar one shown in file photo) used in nuclear power generation. This is the first time for a Japanese company to win an order to supply core equipment for nuclear power reactors from the French utility. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Electric to fall into red in FY 2007

TOKYO, Japan - Tsunehisa Katsumata, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., briefs reporters on the company's full-year earnings estimate for fiscal 2007 in Tokyo on Oct. 31. Japan's biggest utility is expected to fall into the red in fiscal 2007 for the first time in 28 years, affected by the shutdown of its key nuclear power reactor and rising fuel costs. (Kyodo)

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1st hearing over suspension of Takahama reactors

People seeking suspension of two reactors at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama plant on the Sea of Japan coast arrive at the Otsu District Court on May 10, 2016, to attend a first hearing. While the court ordered operations at the two units halted in March as requested by the local residents, the utility company has filed an objection to the ruling. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1st hearing over suspension of Takahama reactors

File photo taken March 10, 2016, shows the Nos. 3 (L) and 4 reactors of Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama plant on the Sea of Japan coast. The Otsu District Court will hold a first hearing May 10 after the utility filed an objection to a ruling by the court banning it from running the two reactors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1st hearing over suspension of Takahama reactors

File photo taken March 10, 2016, shows the Nos. 3 (L) and 4 reactors of Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama plant on the Sea of Japan coast. The Otsu District Court will hold a first hearing May 10 after the utility filed an objection to a ruling by the court banning it from running the two reactors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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TEPCO holds welcoming ceremony for new employees

Photo shows a welcoming ceremony for new recruits of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. in Tokyo on April 1, 2016, the first day of a new fiscal year in Japan. More than 500 new employees joined the utility, the operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Panel holds 1st meeting to examine TEPCO's meltdown judgment process

Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose (R) makes a speech during the first meeting of a third party investigative panel in Tokyo on March 17, 2016. The panel, established by TEPCO, will examine how the utility reached the conclusion on meltdowns at its Fukushima plant in the 2011 nuclear crisis after the company admitted in February 2016 that it could have made a judgment sooner than it did. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Panel holds 1st meeting to examine TEPCO's meltdown judgment process

Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose (L) sits with members of a third party investigative panel, during its first meeting in Tokyo on March 17, 2016. The panel, established by TEPCO, will examine how the utility reached the conclusion on meltdowns at its Fukushima plant in the 2011 nuclear crisis after the company admitted in February 2016 that it could have made a judgment sooner than it did. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan regains nuclear power supply under post-Fukushima regime

Workers at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear plant in Satsumasendai, southwestern Japan, applaud as the company begins supply of electricity generated by nuclear power on Aug. 14, 2015, the first Japanese utility to do so after a two-year hiatus. Public concern persists over the use of nuclear power following the Fukushima disaster triggered by a huge earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan restarts nuclear reactor after 2-year hiatus

Photo taken Aug. 11, 2015 from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 1 reactor building (R) and No. 2 reactor building of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear plant in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. The company reactivated the No.1 reactor the same day, the first Japanese utility to do so under a set of new tighter safety regulations adopted since the Fukushima meltdowns in 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan restarts nuclear reactor after 2-year hiatus

Photo taken Aug. 11, 2015 from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 1 reactor of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear plant in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. The company reactivated the reactor on the day, the first Japanese utility to do so under a set of new tighter safety regulations adopted since the Fukushima meltdowns in 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan set to restart nuclear reactor

Security guards stand in front of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear plant in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Aug. 10, 2015. The company said it will restart the No. 1 reactor of the plant the following day, becoming the first Japanese utility to restart a reactor under a set of new tighter safety regulations adopted since the Fukushima meltdowns in 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan set to restart nuclear reactor

Security guards stand in front of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear plant in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Aug. 10, 2015. The company said it will restart the No. 1 reactor of the plant the following day, becoming the first Japanese utility to restart a reactor under a set of new tighter safety regulations adopted since the Fukushima meltdowns in 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan set to restart nuclear reactor

Former Japanese Prime Minister and antinuclear advocate Naoto Kan makes a speech in front of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear plant in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Aug. 9, 2015. The company said on Aug. 10 that it will restart the reactor the following day, the first Japanese utility to do so under a set of new, tighter safety regulations adopted since the Fukushima meltdowns in 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan set to restart nuclear reactor

People stage a sit-in protest in front of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear plant in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Aug. 10, 2015, as the company is set to restart the No. 1 reactor of the plant the following day, becoming the first Japanese utility to restart a reactor under a set of new tighter safety regulations adopted since the Fukushima meltdowns in 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan set to restart nuclear reactor

Photo taken in July 2015 from a Kyodo News airplane shows the No. 1 reactor of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear plant in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. The company said on Aug. 10 that it will restart the reactor the following day, the first Japanese utility to do so under a set of new tighter safety regulations adopted since the Fukushima meltdowns in 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kyushu Electric to build thermal power plant in Chiba Pref.

Michiaki Uriu, president of Kyushu Electric Power Co., gives a press conference in Fukuoka on March 27, 2015. The utility officially announced the same day that it will jointly develop a coal-fired power plant in Sodegaura, Chiba Prefecture, with Idemitsu Kosan Co. and Tokyo Gas Co. The plant will be the utility's first power station outside Japan's southwestern main island of Kyushu. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kansai Electric starts mega solar system operation

SAKAI, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 5, 2010, shows solar panels belonging to a mega solar power generation plant of Kansai Electric Power Co. located in the Sakai city waterfront area in Osaka Prefecture. The company, which started operation of the plant the same day, became the first power utility in Japan to launch commercial operations of such a large-scale solar power plant. (Kyodo)

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Kansai Electric starts mega solar system operation

SAKAI, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 5, 2010, shows solar panels belonging to a mega solar power generation plant of Kansai Electric Power Co. located in the Sakai city waterfront area in Osaka Prefecture. The company, which started operation of the plant the same day, became the first power utility in Japan to launch commercial operations of such a large-scale solar power plant. (Kyodo)

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