Hokkaido Electric Power Company : Facilities, Generating capacity by source Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hokkaido Electric Power Company

Japanese electric utility company

56 Hydroelectric
12 Thermal
1 Nuclear
1 Geothermal
1 Photovoltaic
373 Substations

(FY2017)

Area served

Hokkaido

Key people

Yoshitaka Sato (Chairman)
Akihiko Mayum (President & CEO)

Production output

Generated electrical power:

27,734 (GW⋅h) (2018)
29,808 (GW⋅h) (2017)
31,900 (GW⋅h) (2016)

Revenue

JPN¥733,050 million (2018)
¥702,776 million (2017)
¥724,111 million (2016)

Operating income

¥33,726 million (2018)
¥27,443 million (2017)
¥43,100 million (2016)

Net income

¥(64,207) million (Consolidated, loss) (FY2014)Total assets

¥1,915,908 million (2018)
¥1,829,539 million (2017)
¥1,826,141 million (2016)

Number of employees

10,962 (FY2018)
10,985 (FY2017)
10,985 (FY2016)

Websitewww.hepco.co.jp/english/index.htmlFootnotes / references
^[1]^[2]

The Hokkaido Electric Power Company (Japanese: 北海道電力株式会社, Hokkaidō Denryoku Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 9509), or Hokuden (ほくでん) for short, is the monopoly electric company of Hokkaidō, Japan. It is also known as Dōden and HEPCO. The company is traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (first section), Osaka Securities Exchange (first section), and Sapporo Securities Exchange.

According to the company profile, during fiscal 2011 (i.e. 1 April 2010 to 31 March 2011), 26% of the electricity generated was from nuclear, 31% from coal, 15% from hydro, 8% from oil and 2% from 'new energy' sources.^[3]

Hokkaido only has one nuclear power station, the Tomari Nuclear Power Plant.

Facilities

Nuclear
- Tomari (ja:泊発電所) (2,070 MW)
Coal
- Tomato-atsuma Thermal Power Station (ja:苫東厚真発電所) (1,650 MW)
- Naie (奈井江発電所) (350 MW)
- Sunagawa (砂川発電所) (250 MW)
Geothermal energy
- Mori (ja:森発電所) (2.5 MW)
Hydro electric – 53 dams including the following:^[4]
- Kyogoku pumped storage project (600 MW)
- Hoheikyo, Ishikari River (50 MW)
- Kamiiwamatsu, Tokachi River (30.4 MW)
- Niikappu, Niikappu River (200 MW)
- Nokanan, Ishikari River (30 MW)
- Okuniikappu, Niikappu River (44 MW)
- Shizunai, Shizunai River (48 MW)
- Takami, Shizunai River (200 MW)
- Takisato, Ishikari River (57 MW)
- Tokachi, Tokachi River (40 MW)
- Tomura, Tokachi River (40 MW)
- Uryu, Ishikari River (51 MW)
Oil
- Date (伊達発電所) (700 MW)
- Shiriuchi (知内発電所) (700 MW)
- Tomakomai (苫小牧発電所) (250 MW)
Diesel
- Onbetsu (音別発電所) (280 MW)

Others;

Wind farms – 3 facilities (1.58 MW)
Solar (photovoltaic) energy – 9 facilities (146 kW)

Generating capacity by source

Electricity producing capacity by source^[5]
Source	Megawatts	Percentage	Number of units
Coal	2,250	30	3
Nuclear	2,070	27.5	3
Oil	1,650	22	3
Hydro	1,231	16	53
Diesel	280	4	1
Geo-thermal	50	0.5	1
Other	2	-
Total	7,533	100	62?

References

Sources

^ Hokkaido Electric Power Company (September 2017). "Fact Book 2017" (PDF) (in English and Japanese). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 September 2019. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
^ Hokkaido Electric Power Company (2018). "Hokuden Group Report 2018" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 September 2019. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
^ "Corporate profile page of Hokkaido Electric Power Company, accessed 10 September 2011". Archived from the original on 17 August 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
^ Kyogoku pumped storage project is under construction and due for completion in 2015. It will provide 600 MW.
^ *HEPCO Sustainability Report 2008 Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine