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Hokuriku Electric Power Co

Type: Company

Name: Hokuriku Electric Power Co

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

NRA forges new trail in judging reactor risk

Regulators are in the process of deciding which reactors are sitting on active faults, but the experts involved say there is clearly room for improvement.Fault exams at three nuclear power plants are proceeding in parallel. The first one to be finalized ... [Published Japan Times - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Reactor, Nuclear Power, Tsuruga (Japan), Japan

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Troubled Tsuruga reactor could force utilities to shoulder enormous financial burdens

The utility companies that hold major stakes in Japan Atomic Power Co. could be forced to shoulder enormous financial burdens if JAPC were to collapse due to the possible shutdown and decommissioning of the No. 2 reactor at its Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant ... [Published MAINICHI Daily News - May 16 2013]

Entities: Reactor, Encumbrance, Tsuruga (Japan)

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 2 reports

Japan's Utilities Suffer Staggering Losses

Eurotechnology Japan noted in a recent e-mail circular that Japan's ten major electricity operators were deeply in the red for the year ending 31 March —the second year in a row that the utilities took such a hit. Their combined 2012-13 losses came to ... [Published Spectrum Online - May 07 2013]

Entities: Suffer, Nuclear, Fukushima (Japan), Nuclear Power

First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 1 reports

Standard & Poor's

S&P Global Clean Energy Index Fund (ICLN)

Clean energy has been in the tank for some time and one might think the bottom is pretty close as many large and small names in the space are now gone.ICLN tracks the S&P Global Clean Energy Index. The fund was launched in June 2008. The expense ratio ... [Published StockHouse USA - Apr 28 2013]

Entities: Global Clean Energy Inc, Standard & Poor's, EDP Renováveis SA

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

Atlas Iron Ltd

Asian Shares Rise on U.S. Cue

Asian markets were higher early Wednesday following a positive lead from the U.S., while Japanese stocks rose as the yen weakened.Regional stocks climbed after two days of volatile trading brought about by Monday's weaker-than-expected Chinese growth ... [Published Global Finance Magazine - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: United States, Iron Ore, Hokuriku Electric Power Co, Atlas Iron Ltd, Newcrest Mining Ltd

First reported Mar 06 2013 - Updated Mar 06 2013 - 1 reports

Shinzo Abe

Abe nuclear revival pushes sales to pre-quake high: Japan Credit

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s plan to review Japan’s zero-nuclear policy helped push bond sales by utilities to the most since the March 2011 earthquake left all but two of the nation’s 50 reactors idle.Kyushu Electric Power Co led ￥150 billion ... [Published Taipei Times Online - Mar 06 2013]

Entities: Shinzo Abe, Japan, Democratic Party of Japan (JP), Nuclear Power, Nuclear

Quotes

...A senior government official said, "There is a possibility that the power companies will have to shoulder a total of 500 to 700 billion yen." That would further upset the power companies that have already incurred heavy losses due to higher fuel costs as a result of the shutdown of their nuclear...

Troubled Tsuruga reactor could force utilities to shoulder enormous financial burdens [Published MAINICHI Daily News - May 16 2013]

"It is very regrettable and unacceptable that such a decision was made" as the company has repeatedly explained the fault in question is not active, Japan Atomic said in a statement yesterday...

Japan’s Nuclear Watchdog Set to Request Closing Reactor on Fault [Published BusinessWeek - May 15 2013]

...affected by the shutdown of Japan's reactors and the urgent need to replace nuclear electricity with power generated from imported natural gas. "Currently all Japanese regional electricity operators, except Hokuriku Electric Power Company and Okinawa Electric Power Company show net losses." As a result, the country as a whole has seen its trade balance slip into the red, despite its position as an exporter to the world

Japan's Utilities Suffer Staggering Losses [Published Spectrum Online - May 07 2013]

Tokyo Electric Power Co. "s (Tepco) Shinagawa thermal power station in Tokyo. Tokyo Electric Power Co., which supplies electricity to Japan’s biggest metropolitan area, boosted household rates by about 8.5 percent beginning in September 2012 to cover rising fuel costs in the absence of nuclear power generation. Tokyo Electric Power Co." s (Tepco) Shinagawa thermal power station in Tokyo. Tokyo Electric Power Co...

Japan Utilities May Raise Prices as Reactors Sit Idle [Published Bloomberg - May 01 2013]

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Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for May 21st to... [Published Greenpeace news - May 23 2013] Here’s the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Nuclear Regulation Authority Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) announced this week that it will accept findings from a panel ...
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for May 21st to... [Published The Greenpeace weblog - May 23 2013] Here’s the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Nuclear Regulation Authority Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) announced this week that it will accept findings from a panel ...
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for May 14th to... [Published Greenpeace news - May 17 2013] Here’s the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Nuclear Regulation Authority A panel of seismic experts from Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has determined that a fault ...
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for May 14th to... [Published The Greenpeace weblog - May 17 2013] Here’s the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Nuclear Regulation Authority A panel of seismic experts from Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has determined that a fault ...
Japan's Utilities Suffer Staggering Losses [Published IEEE Spectrum - May 06 2013] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Eurotechnology Japan noted in a recent e-mail circular that Japan's ten major electricity operators were deeply in the red for the year ending 31 March —the second year in a row that the utilities took ...