The Japan TimesOtsu District Court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by residents of Osaka and Shiga prefectures to shut down three Kansai Electric Power nuclear plants in Fukui Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/26/japan/crime-legal/court-dismissal-fukui-nuclear-plant/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #shiga #otsu #osaka #fukui #nuclearenergy #japanesecourts #kepco
A Japanese high court branch on Friday rejected injunctions by local residents seeking to halt the operations of aging nuclear power reactors run by Kansai Electric Power in Fukui Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/28/japan/crime-legal/court-rejection-injunctions-mihama-takahama/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #kepco #japanesecourts #fukui #mihama #takahama #nuclearenergy #earthquakes
A cargo ship carrying plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel produced in France has arrived at Kansai Electric Power's Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture, informed sources have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/17/japan/mox-fuel-takahama-nuclear-power-plant/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #kepco #takahama #fukui #nuclearenergy #france
Kansai Electric Power will start a survey early this month to assess whether it can build a new nuclear reactor in or near its Mihama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture, sources said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/03/companies/kansai-electric-reactor-survey/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #kepco #nuclearenergy #mihama #utilities #energy #fukui
Kansai Electric Power is preparing to decommission the No. 1 and No. 2 units at its Gobo oil-fired thermal power station in Wakayama Prefecture, sources have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/26/japan/kansai-electric-retirement-gobo/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #kepco #gobo #wakayama #nuclearenergy #energy #carbon #emissions #coal #oil
Kansai Electric Power says that it will complete a geological survey to build a safer next-generation nuclear reactor in Fukui Prefecture around 2030. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/18/japan/kansai-electric-survey/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #kepco #nuclearenergy #earthquakes #fukui #surveys
Elliott Investment Management has taken a stake in Japanese regional utility Kansai Electric Power, according to a media report, in the latest move by activist shareholders to squeeze value from Japanese companies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/10/companies/elliott-kansai-electric/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #elliottinvestmentmanagement #kepco #nuclearenergy
Mihama Mayor Hideki Toshima on Monday indicated his willingness to accept Kansai Electric Power Co.'s planned survey for building a new reactor at its Mihama nuclear power plant in the central Japan town. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/04/japan/mihama-mayor-nuclear-reactor/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #mihama #hidekitoshima #kepco
The nation's 10 major electricity suppliers said Friday that power bills for standard households will fall by between ¥520 and ¥691 in July from the previous month. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/27/japan/household-electricity-bills-drop-july/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #energy #lng #electricity #utilities #tepco #kepco
Karen E. Lund 💙💛Korea’s biggest electricity provider is backtracking on its promises and trying to finance its coal plans with toxic bonds. But we have an opportunity to disrupt this. KEPCO has bonds maturing in June, and we can pressure major banks that have supported it before—Citi, Bank of America, HSBC, and JPMorgan—to back away.
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