Table: More than 9 mln Japan retail power users switch to new entrants

Okinawa Electric Power

10/10/2018 05:23

TOKYO, Oct 10 (Reuters) - More than 9 million retail power
customers have switched to new power providers in Japan at the
end of September, data by the national grid monitor,
Organization for Cross-regional Coordination of Transmission
Operators Japan (OCCTO), showed on Wednesday.
    The power sector was fully liberalised in April 2016.
    The following table shows the number of switches to new
power providers made by retail power users in each area of the
former monopolies. 
    The switches are counted by 1,000s. The percentages are the
ratio of the number of switched accounts to each utility's total
retail power accounts.   
 Utility             end-Sept    % of
                                 total
 Hokkaido Electric       429.5      15.6%
 Tohoku Electric         369.2       6.7%
 Tepco                 4,456.8      19.4%
 Chubu Electric          934.8      12.3%
 Hokuriku Electric        56.2       4.5%
 Kansai Electric       1,870.2      18.6%
 Chugoku Electric        177.2       5.1%
 Shikoku Electric         41.0       7.2%
 Kyushu Electric         620.2      10.0%
 Okinawa Electric          1.8       0.2%
 Total                 9,056.9      14.5%
  (Source: OCCTO, industry data)

 (Reporting by Osamu Tsukimori, Editing by Sunil Nair)
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