The Chugoku Electric Power Company, Incorporated, trading as EnerGia (Latin for "energy") 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. 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.[1][2]
In December 2024, Chugoku Electric Power announced to restart its Shimane nuclear power station in western Japan which has been shuttered since 2011.[3]
To restart the Shimane reactor, Chugoku Electric would need a total investment of almost $6 billion.[4]
See also
- Ashes to Honey
- Anti-nuclear movement in Japan
References
- Hiroko Tabuchi. Japanese Island's Activists Resist Nuclear Industry's Allure New York Times, August 27, 2011^
- Juliet Ledesma. Electric Power Company Operational Area Lowes Electric Power Company, December 20, 2013, retrieved November 24, 2015^
- Japan's Chugoku Elec restarts Shimane reactor for first time in 13 years December 7, 2024^
- Chugoku Electric restarts Shimane reactor for first time in 13 years Dec 7, 2024^
- 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, retrieved 18 December 2010^