Nuclear-Free Japan Faces Summer Power Crunch in Heartland
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Japan’s industrial heartland in the west is facing the prospect of electricity shortages over the summer, underscoring the risks that the absence of nuclear power pose to the world’s third-largest economy.
Electric Power Development Co., better known as J-Power, said yesterday it won’t be able to fully restore a 1,000 megawatt, coal-burning generator on Japan’s island of Kyushu until June 2015. The unit at its Matsuura plant, which serves western Japan, has been off-line since March 28, when it was damaged by an accident during an inspection.