Federation of Electric Power Companies
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The , or FEPC for short, is an industry organization of electric utilities in Japan
. Its objective is to harmonize the plans for electric development in Japan. Its main offices are located in Chiyoda, Tokyo
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Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. Its objective is to harmonize the plans for electric development in Japan. Its main offices are located in Chiyoda, Tokyo
Chiyoda, Tokyo
is one of the 23 special wards in central Tokyo, Japan. In English, it is called Chiyoda ward. As of October 2007, the ward has an estimated population of 45,543 and a population density of 3,912 people per km², making it by far the least populated of the special wards...
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History
- November 1952 it was founded by a group of 9 electric power companies (Hokaido, Tohoku, Tokyo, Chubu, Hokuriku, Kansai, Chukoku, Kyuushu)
- March 2000 the Okinawa Electric Power CompanyOkinawa Electric Power Company, OEPC or for short, is an electric utility with its exclusive operational area of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It is the smallest by electricity sales among Japan’s ten regional power utilities, indeed, its electricity sales is approximately 1⁄40 of that of The Tokyo Electric Power Company, though...
joined.