Kansai Electric Power Company

The Kansai Electric Power Company, Incorporated
関西電力株式会社
Type Public kabushiki gaisha
Traded as TYO: 9503
OSE: 9503
NSE: 9503
Industry Power Industry
Predecessor Kansai Haiden
Nippon Hassoden KK
Founded Osaka, Japan (May 1, 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, Gufu Prefecture
Key people Shosuke Mori
(Chair)
Makoto Yagi
(President)
Services Electricity providing, Gas providing, and others
Revenue ¥2,769,783 million (consolidated, FY 2010)
Operating income ¥273,885 million (consolidated, FY 2010)
Net income ¥123,143 million (consolidated, FY 2010)
Total assets ¥7,310,178 million (consolidated, FY 2010)
Total equity ¥1,832,416 million (consolidated, FY 2010)
Subsidiaries Kanden Energy Development Co., Inc.
Kanden Energy Solution Co., Inc.
Kansai Multimedia Service Company
K-opticom Corporation
Kanden System Solutions Co., Inc.
Kinden Corporation
Kanden-el-farm, Inc.
Website www.kepco.co.jp/english/
References: "Consolidated Financial Release(for the year ended March 31,2011)". The Kansai Electric Power Company, Inc.. April 27, 2011. http://www.kepco.co.jp/english/ir/brief/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2011/04/27/20110427_e.pdf. 

The Kansai Electric Power Company, Incorporated (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 company is regarded as one of the leading companies in Kansai, as well as a leader of the Japanese electric power industry.

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Power Plants

Total 164 plants , 35,760,000 kW

Nuclear

Name Location Generation Capacity (kw)
Mihama Fukui 1,666,000
Ōi Fukui 4,710,000
Takahama Fukui 3,392,000

Thermal

Name Generation Capacity (kw)
Akō 1,200,000
Aioi 1,125,000
Himeji-1 1,442,000
Himeji-2 2,550,000
Takasago 900,000
Nanko, Osaka 1,800,000
Maizuru 900,000
Gobo 1,800,000
Sakai 2,000,000
Tanagawa, Misaki 1,200,000
Kainan 2,100,000
Miyazu 750,000

hydro

Name Generation Capacity (kw)
Kurobe-4 (Kurobe Dam) 335,000
Others (147 plants) 818,000

Accidents and Scandals

Mihama accident in 2004

On August 9, 2004, KEPCO reported that five of its employees were killed by a steam burst 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 radiation leak.

And in 2006

On March 22, 2006, the AP reported that 2 employees were injured in a four hour fire. The fire apparently started in an area of the facility where ash is packed into steel barrels. Some of the waste processed in that area contains low levels of radiation, but monitors outside the facility have shown no signs of leakage. All four pressurized water reactors were operating normally at the time.

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