Tokyo area enters power-saving period amid tight supply forecast

I don’t understand. TEPCO has had plenty of time to prepare for a hot summer……Oh, I forgot, they also had plenty of time to prepare for a tsunami, too. That did not work out well, either.

TEPCO is a collection for nitwits and crooks. Households and businesses shouldn't have to conserve. The taxes they pay are supposed to support infrastructure. Guess not. Japan should just go 100% nuclear for electricity. It's efficient, safe, and clean energy. Unfortunately, idiots like TEPCO, unfortunately, relies too much on oil, LNG, and coal, plus unreliable nature destroying hydroelectric. The just want to keep attracting investors and increase their revenue. Too bad, because a lot of Tokyoites such as myself will being using our new electric Fender guitars. Pay no attention to TEPCO. They're just flapping their gums.

Instead making safe non-coal and non-oil powerplant, Japan still using coal and oil powerplant and ask people to conserve the energy. Still Japan like to claim that their society is advance society.

im pumping my a/c at 24 degrees all day every day until the cows come home

Kanto, don't be stubborn, restart the nuclear plants. Kansai people didn't get much raise in electric price and no "tight supplies", because the nuclear plants didn't get shut.

Tokyo uses 38% of the total power generated. 283.6 thousand gigawatt hours.

Somebody should tell them that when the sun is shining solar panel purpurnes highest

Give $1.5 billion to Ukraine two days ago and cut off cheap oil and gas from Russia, sanction China which has the cheapest and most reliable solar panels. Nice plan, but not enough ambulances for heat attack victims.

No way will I be even trying to save electricity.

Relying on a central sole supplier for your power is intrinsically unsafe and prone to corrupt and monopolistic behaviour. Japan and its people need to diversify and decentralise power generation as far as is practicable. Every roof that can support solar should be incentivised to install it, companies and land owners incentivised to erect wind turbines and require the monopoly electricity suppliers to buy it at a sustainable price and the same for excess domestic production.

While nuclear has its place it needs to be from new, walk away safe plants not the intrinsically unsafe and creaking legacy dinosaurs and as a mix of sustainable energy sources.

After the earthquake when there were no nuclear power stations operating there was ample supply but now that the power stations are on line again and the countryside smothered with solar panels they say that there will not be enough electricity. Something seems strange about that

Decades of warning/knowing this was coming, they all did nothing.

All the nuke reactor owners bet on the aging plants being extended indefinitely. They knew the first proposed end date of such plants, for many has come and gone, yet they had no plan.

We are so lucky to be able to live in a country where we are encouraged to save energy. In so many other countries, just having enough energy would be a dream come true. Japan is a nice place and Japanese people are very nice people too. Let's help foreign countries develop and build their own economies and make it all happen. Take care of poverty first and it will all fall into place,

Relying on a central sole supplier for your power is intrinsically unsafe and prone to corrupt and monopolistic behaviour. 

Where did this come from? Oh right, Tokyo-centric thinking again, my bad.

Just to let you know, not everyone does, and outside of the problem with the eastern and western Japan grid, they dont.

What they charge now, I will not be trying to save a god damn thing. By the way, you cannot save electricity, only use less. That's not how it works.

I hear Russia is selling some cheap oil and gas.

Rather stick pins in my eyes than pay Russia indirectly for anything.

Get the nuclear power plants back up and generating!

I have new solar system on my roof, but on inclement weather days, they are like teats on a boar.

If there’s not enough power to keep folks cool…where’s the power going to come from to power all the Green New Deal projects.

All that taxpayers cash being sent to Ukraine might better be spent here to help with the electric power issues here!

This is such a joke. And it repeats every year. The climate change is a great tool to use as a blame and put all the responsibility on everyday electricity users. Start the nuclear power plants. Ot is far more clean and effective energy source than coil! This is such a typical Japanese behavior, lies and hypocrisy. This country is set to rot!

Just walk into any convenient store and you will se these open top freezers keeping an ice cream at -20C with NO doors or covers, or the open face refrigerators keeping beer, sea food, meats cold running at -10or -15C then it makes you wonder, What power savings is government talking about?? all these stores has to do is put a plastic sheeting or sliding doors and save energy, and the funniest part is they dim the lights around these refrigerators, LOL

The biggest problem is the lack of a single unified smart grid system.

To help reduce energy, how about start by not cutting down the trees in Meiji Jingu Gaien.

While other major cities (London, NY ...) are greening their centers - which can substantially reduce air temperatures, Tokyo seems to be making no progress at tackling its heat island effect.

Eastern Japan has a generation capacity of around 130 GW in the eastern part and the western part around 160 GW.

If TEPCO restarted the NPP in Niigata there would be enough power for all of Kanto but there are still investigations ongoing.

TEPCO electricity forecast

https://www4.tepco.co.jp/en/forecast/html/index-e.html

It’s so cool in my local post office that when I leave, I find that there is an icicle hanging off the tip of my nose

This summer, in Tokyo there are sure to be brown outs-3rd world status is soon to be a reality…

It's unacceptable to pay such high city taxes and be told 'erm...we don't have enough power for you.'

Get modern, find a solution. There are dozens of 'new' energy providers waiting.

Since February, the government has been paying about ¥7/kw or about 20% of the power bills. Will end after September.

I've managed to not have to turn on the AC at home yet so far, though it probably won't stay that way as summer goes on. Already cold shower time.

The entire economy relies of cheap reliable energy.

These shortages every year are a gigantic failure.

Planning and building capacity to meet demand is no longer being done? Have they become a should do instead of a must do?

They keep asking households to do power saving while the business sector and shopping malls keep wasting power!!! So many escalators, elevators and unnecessary lightings being used in businesses and malls… if they just shut down a few of these ( not all, even shutting down 10% of these is adequate ) so much power will be saved!!!

We should all strive to do our part to conserve energy - especially if it helps the environment, country, and our fellow humans.

Japan never really, truly became a first world nation. In some ways yes, in other ways no.

Take this for example, the world's largest agglomeration has to conserve energy like some third world communist state.

Poor infrastructure. Poor planning.

What's scary is that japan is aging rapidly and it seems as though more third world issues will arise in this so-called affluent country.

wallaceJuly 1  09:51 pm JST

Since February, the government has been paying about ¥7/kw or about 20% of the power bills. Will end after September

And the government gets its money from the people.

For the life of me, I cannot understand what some cannot understand this.

Randy JohnsonToday 05:11 am JST

What's scary is that japan is aging rapidly and it seems as though more third world issues will arise in this so-called affluent country.

Japan is aging rapidly because they thought they could "affluent" their way out of demographic realities. Should be a lesson for you.

Japan never really, truly became a first world nation. In some ways yes, in other ways no.

100% agree. And that thin veneer of “first word” gets eroded more and more by the day.

Randy Johnson

wallaceJuly 1 09:51 pm JST

> Since February, the government has been paying about ¥7/kw or about 20% of the power bills. Will end after September

> And the government gets its money from the people.

> For the life of me, I cannot understand what some cannot understand this.

Then call it a tax rebate. I am happy about the reductions, especially with the winter bills.