Hokkaido Electric Power Company

Template:Short description Template:Expand Japanese Template:Template other The , or 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 and the Template:Ill.

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.

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:
  • 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

File:Date Power Station.jpg

Date fuel oil-powered power station

Electricity producing capacity by source

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?

External links

• Hokkaido Electric Power Co., Inc. (in English)
• HEPCO Sustainability Report 2008 (in English)