Table: Nearly 8.7 mln Japan retail power users switch to new entrants

Okinawa Electric Power

07/09/2018 07:42

TOKYO, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Nearly 8.7 million retail power
customers have switched to new power providers in Japan at
end-August, data by the national grid monitor Organization for
Cross-regional Coordination of Transmission Operators Japan
(OCCTO) showed on Friday.
    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-Aug      % of total
 Hokkaido Electric       418.8            15.2%
   Tohoku Electric       354.9             6.5%
             Tepco     4,258.6            18.5%
    Chubu Electric       892.9            11.7%
 Hokuriku Electric        54.8             4.4%
   Kansai Electric     1,809.7            18.0%
  Chugoku Electric       170.2             4.9%
  Shikoku Electric       136.7             7.0%
   Kyushu Electric       596.7             9.6%
  Okinawa Electric         1.0             0.1%
             Total     8,694.3            13.9%
 
     
      (Source: OCCTO, industry data)

 (Reporting by Osamu Tsukimori, Editing by Sherry
Jacob-Phillips)
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