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Article: PROFILE -- JAPAN'S ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY (MAY 2005).
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- AsiaPulse News
- Article date:
- May 16, 2005
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A PROFILE OF JAPAN'S ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY
PREPARED BY ASIA PULSE ANALYSTS (MAY 2005)
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OVERVIEW:
The liberalization of Japan's power supply entered a new phase on April 1 as retailing electricity to smaller businesses that consume 50kwh or more was deregulated. The latest round of the deregulation has increased the proportion of non-regulated part of the power retail market to about 64% from 41%.
But the amount of electricity the power suppliers newly entering the market can generate is still so limited that these new entrants ...