TEPCO

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings announced that its No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station in Niigata Prefecture has begun transmitting electricity to the Tokyo metropolitan area for the first time in 14 years. The company conducted a grid connection test early Monday morning and started full-scale transmission in the evening. Commercial operations are scheduled for March 18.

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Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings has fixed a malfunction in a measuring instrument at the No. 6 reactor of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant by replacing parts. The glitch is expected to delay the planned start of power generation and transmission from Monday afternoon by about half a day.