Chugoku Electric Power Company

The Chugoku Electric Power Company, Incorporated
中国電力株式会社

Type	Public KK (TYO: 9504)
Industry	Energy
Headquarters	Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
Area served	Chūgoku region of Japan
Revenue	¥1,038,443 million (2010, consolidated)
Operating income	¥81,515 million (2010, consolidated)
Net income	¥31,001 million (2010, consolidated)
Total assets	¥2,781,990 million (2010, consolidated)
Total equity	¥679,685 million (2010, consolidated)
Employees	14,146 (2010, consolidated)
Website	energia.co.jp

The Chugoku Electric Power Company, Incorporated (中国電力株式会社, Chūgoku Denryoku Kabushiki-gaisha^?) is an electric utility with its exclusive operational area of Chūgoku region of Japan. It is the sixth largest by electricity sales among Japan’s ten regional power utilities.^[1] It operates the Shimane Nuclear Power Plant.

In 1982, Chugoku Electric Power Company proposed building a nuclear power plant near the island of Iwaishima, but many residents opposed the idea, and the island’s fishing cooperative voted overwhelmingly against the plans. In January 1983, almost 400 islanders staged a protest march, which was the first of more than 1,000 protests the islanders carried out. Since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011 there has been wider opposition to construction plans for the plant.^[2]

References

1. ^ "Lighting & Power Demand Volume and Change by Company and Use (FY2009)". Electricity Demand in FY2009 (Confirmed Report). Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan. 30 April 2010. http://www.fepc.or.jp/english/news/demand/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2010/05/07/kakuho_E_fy2009_0430.pdf#page=2. Retrieved 18 December 2010. 
2. ^ Hiroko Tabuchi (August 27, 2011). "Japanese Island’s Activists Resist Nuclear Industry’s Allure". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/world/asia/28nuclear.html.