Table: Nearly 9.8 mln Japan retail power users switch to new entrants

Okinawa Electric Power

10/12/2018 08:47

TOKYO, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Nearly 9.8 million retail power
customers have switched to new power providers in Japan by the
end of November, data by the national grid monitor, Organization
for Cross-regional Coordination of Transmission Operators Japan
(OCCTO), showed on Monday.
    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-Nov  % of total
  Hokkaido Electric      454.2        16.5%
    Tohoku Electric      431.9         7.9%
              Tepco    4,805.5        20.9%
     Chubu Electric      998.5        13.1%
  Hokuriku Electric       60.3         4.9%
    Kansai Electric    2,004.8        19.9%
   Chugoku Electric      192.5         5.5%
   Shikoku Electric      152.5         7.8%
    Kyushu Electric      663.1        10.6%
   Okinawa Electric        3.7         0.5%
              Total    9,767.0        15.6%
   
    
  (Source: OCCTO, industry data)

 (Reporting by Osamu Tsukimori)
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