We greatly appreciate your understanding and cooperation in saving electricity after the Tohoku-Chihou-Taiheiyou-Oki Earthquake on March 11, 2011. We would like to announce the power supply and demand outlook for the winter of 2012.

With the effectiveness of electricity saving taken into account, the electricity demand in January and February (time period in which high demand is estimated) is estimated to be 49.9 GW (assuming regular winter temperature) to 50.5 GW (assuming an extremely cold winter as in 2011).

The power supply capacity is estimated to be 54.28 GW in January and 55.24 GW in February in consideration of the new power supply installations. Based on this estimate, reserve power of 3.78 GW and reserve margin of 7.5% will be secured in January (time period in which the maximum demand is estimated), which will ensure stable electricity supply. Please refer to the attachment for detailed power supply and demand outlook.

At the "Meeting on power supply and demand" and the "Conference on energy and environmental issues" held by the government today, it was stated that "Though electricity saving in general "which imposes no numerical targets " is requested all over Japan^*1 (except for the service area of the Okinawa Electric Power Company), the established electricity saving value estimated by the government^*2 is provided as a guide for the purpose of ensuring electricity saving among customers". We would like to request our customers to continue reasonable effort in saving electricity.

We will continue our utmost efforts in achieving stable electricity supply through safe operation and maintenance of electric power facilities.

*1 Period of electricity saving requested by the government: 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM on weekdays (except for December 31 and January 2-4) during the period from Monday, December 3, 2012 to Friday, March 29, 2013.
*2 -5.0% compared to FY 2010.

Attachment: Breakdown of Power Supply and Demand Outlook for the Winter of 2012 (PDF 50.1KB)