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Article: Tokyo Electric Power completes damaged-cable repairs after blackout.
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- Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan)
- Article date:
- August 17, 2006
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Aug. 17--TOKYO -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday it has completed repairs on damaged power cables that caused a major blackout in Tokyo and nearby Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures for about three hours Monday morning.
With the completion of the repairs late Wednesday, Tokyo Electric's key electricity supply route linking its thermal power plant in Chiba Prefecture and Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, via central Tokyo, has been restored, Japan's top power company said.
While the repair work was being conducted, Tokyo Electric had supplied electricity to the affected areas via a different electricity supply route.
Tokyo Electric began repair ...