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Japan cutting electricity consumption through summer

Japan begins power saving despite nuclear restart, Business Recorder, 02 JULY 2012   TOKYO: Electricity saving targets came into effect in Japan on Monday as the country eyes a power shortfall over the hot summer, despite the weekend re-start of a nuclear reactor.

The government has asked households and businesses served by six utilities in central and western Japan to voluntarily cut consumption of electricity by between five and 15 percent on summer 2010 levels through to September 7.

Power consumption usually rises in the summer as people turn on air conditioners to cope with the sometimes sweltering weather. A seven-percent reduction target will also come into force in Japan’s northernmost — and more temperate — island of Hokkaido on July 23….

The targets come as Japan ended almost two months without any functioning nuclear reactors, with the restart Sunday of Unit No. 3 at Oi nuclear power plant……
http://www.brecorder.com/world/south-asia/65136-japan-begins-power-saving-despite-nuclear-restart-.html

July 13, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | ENERGY, Japan