We sincerely apologize to the people living in the surrounding areas of 
the power station and broader society for the concern and anxiety that has 
arisen on account of the accident at Fukushima Daiichi and Daini Nuclear 
Power Station.

We were dealing with the accident at Fukushima Daiichi & Daini Nuclear 
Power Stations caused by the Tohoku-Chihou-Taiheiyou-Oki Earthquake on 
March 11th 2011 and the prolonged outage at Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear 
Power Plant. At the same time, in order to stabilize the power supply, we 
strived to maintain and secure capacity via measures such as increasing 
thermal power generation. As a result of the severe situation of a heavy 
fuel cost burdens, we were seeking to raise the electricity rates of our 
customers in the deregulated section from next April. Today, we announce 
the further details regarding the increasing of the unit rate.

The new electricity rates are increasing uniformly to the original rates 
2.58 yen/kWh for the Extra-High-Voltage customers and 2.61 yen/kWh for the 
High-Voltage customers. The increasing unit rate is equivalent to the part 
of which we can not cover the burden increments with our thoroughgoing 
rationalization such as fuel costs for the premise of the current 
electricity rate.

We will announce the standard contract (Electricity Supply and Demand 
Contract) including new electricity unit rate in our homepages.

Your continued understanding of our severe business conditions is greatly 
appreciated. 

Reference 1: Summary of the Electricity Rate Raise for Customers in the 
             Deregulated Section (PDF 22.6KB) 
Reference 2: Model cases of the electricity price for the customers in the 
             deregulated section (PDF 9.67KB)