Press Release
Equipment Damage and Power Outages within TEPCO Power Grid’s Service Area as a Result of Typhoon #15 【As of 11:30 AM】
Sep 9, 2019
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.
The following is information on the damage caused to TEPCO Group facilities and the power outages in TEPCO Power Grid’s (hereinafter referred to as, “TEPCO PG”) service area by Typhoon #15. (As of 11:30 AM)
At current time, approximately 860,000 homes in TEPCO Power Grid’s service area have lost power as a result of the typhoon. We deeply apologize for the great inconvenience that this has caused those residents who are currently without power and society as a whole.
The TEPCO Group is making every effort to restore power as quickly as possible.
1. Power outages
・Total number of households without power: Approx. 858,800 (as of 11:30 AM, September 9)
Tochigi Prefecture: Approx. 700 households
Ibaraki Prefecture: Approx. 92,000 households
Chiba Prefecture: Approx. 632,000 households
Tokyo: Approx. 2,200 households
Kanagawa Prefecture: Approx. 99,900 households
Shizuoka Prefecture: Approx. 32,000 households
*The number of households without power in the Kisarazu area is as of 3:09am as a result of a loss of power to the TEPCO Power Grid Kisarazu branch office.
(Reference) Maximum number of households that lost power (as of 7:50 AM, September 9)
・Maximum number of households that lost power: Approx. 934,900
Tochigi Prefecture: Approx. 1,200 households
Ibaraki Prefecture: Approx. 99,200 households
Saitama Prefecture: Approx. 4,100 households
Chiba Prefecture: Approx. 637,100 households
Tokyo: Approx. 12,200 households
Kanagawa Prefecture: Approx. 141,500 households
Shizuoka Prefecture: Approx. 39,600 households
2. Repair Prediction
Power should be restored sometime today to Tochigi Prefecture and Tokyo with the exception of some areas where it has been difficult to make repairs.
Repairs are underway in southern Chiba Prefecture, southern Kanagawa Prefecture, along the coast of Ibaraki Prefecture and in the Eastern Izu area of Shizuoka Prefecture with the aim of restoring power as quickly as possible, but we cannot predict whether or not power will be restored today. We will make another announcement as soon as we are able to make a prediction.
All possible efforts are being made in the southern part of Chiba Prefecture where there are great many of households without power, and this area is the focus of TEPCO employee dispatches. We are moving forward with repairs so as to enlarge the area within which power has been restored as much as possible during today.
3. Facility Damage
Two steel towers were toppled (near Nagashi, Kimitsu City, Chiba Prefecture)
4. Other Information
Aid in making repairs will be received from Tohoku Electric, Hokuriku Electric and Chubu Electric.
