Five Japan utilities' plan to hike electricity prices likely to be postponed -Jiji

Hokuriku Electric Power Co

24/02/2023 08:01

TOKYO, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Five Japanese utilities' plans
to raise household electricity prices from April 1, as requested
to the government, are likely to be pushed back, Jiji news
agency reported on Friday.
    The five utilities are Tohoku Electric Power Co  9506.T ,
Hokuriku Electric Power Co  9505.T , Chugoku Electric Power
 9504.T , Okinawa Electric Power  9511.T  and Shikoku Electric
Power  9507.T , Jiji said.
 
 (Reporting by Satoshi Sugiyama
Editing by Chang-Ran Kim)
 ((Satoshi.Sugiyama@thomsonreuters.com;))