Government and Hokkaido Electric Power Co. have been considering planned blackouts because the recovery plan is tightrope.
Saeko Hiroshi Akira Nakagawa said on Wednesday evening, "I want to make sure that electricity is distributed to all civilians." Therefore, "I want to advance preparations for all measures including planned blackouts."
According to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, we plan to take a planned blackout when the electricity supply and demand margin is forecast to be less than 1% since the 10th day of the week when power consumption increases in corporate activities.
We divide Hoku inside into 60 groups and stop the electricity in that area for 2 hours once. To people in the target area, inform the mobile phone by e-mail etc. several times after the evening the day before.
This is because there is a possibility that the supply of 200,000 to 400,000 kilowatts will be insufficient against the demand peak of about 3.8 million kilowatts. The scale is small compared with the planned blackout after the Great East Japan Earthquake that lacked supply of about 10 million kilowatts, and the length of one blackout is also half.
Still a planned blackout is a "powerful drug." He added that "we do not want to activate it", said Fukushima Ministeri. With the tightrope power supply and demand continuing, there seems to be an aim to raise the sense of crisis of the citizens and to promote energy saving in the restored area.
It is said that the scratches of power station stoppage caused by the earthquake in the early hours of the 6th is so serious.
Hokkaido hurried to restart operations such as thermal power plants on the 7th and also expanded the purchase of electricity from Honshu companies that have electricity supply from Honshu and power generation facilities. According to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, it will secure a supply capacity of 3.2 million kilowatts, which is more than 80% of the latest peak electricity during the seventh day, and will accumulate up to 3.6 million kilowatts, which is over 90% by the 8th.
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is close to the epicenter, and it is supposed that there is a prospect of restoration in the whole area of the province, except for about 10,000 units in areas where damage to power transmission and distribution facilities is significant.
Nevertheless, to completely recover from the worry of supply and demand, it is necessary to restart the Kitayen's largest thermal power plant, Kitakami Atsuma (and Masumi Atsuma) power plant (Atsuma Hokkaido, 1.65 million kilowatt), which was the origin of the blackout . Turbines and boilers are broken, and it will take more than a week to restart. It does not change either the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, or Kita Electric.