Aug. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it burned more fossil fuel in July after an earthquake forced the utility to shut the world's biggest nuclear station and summer heat boosted demand.

Asia's biggest utility burned 87 percent more crude, or 299,000 kiloliters, compared with a year earlier, it said on its Web site today. Tokyo Electric's Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear plant has been shut since July 16, 2007, after being damaged by an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8, according to Japan's meteorological agency.

The following is a table of Tokyo Electric's fuel use for thermal-power generation. Coal and LNG figures are in metric tons, while those for fuel oil and crude oil are in kiloliters.

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July 2008 July 2007

Fuel oil 580,000 403,000 Crude oil 299,000 160,000 LNG 1,751,000 1,631,000 Coal 381,000 308,000

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Source: Tokyo Electric Power Co.

To contact the reporter on this story: Megumi Yamanaka in Tokyo at myamanaka@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: August 11, 2008 22:08 EDT