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Medium-term plans, capital spending, new plants, products and drug approvals from Japanese companies.

  1. Renova locks in a 25-year Tokyo Gas contract for a wind farm still under construction

    Renova has contracted all output of its 54.6MW Kumamoto wind project to Tokyo Gas for 25 years at above the feed-in tariff, though the price is undisclosed and the plant is not yet running.

  2. Hokkaido Electric puts ¥125.5bn price on Tomari seawall due August 2027

    Hokkaido Electric Power says the Tomari seawall will cost ¥125.5bn and still finish in August 2027, with schedule pressure from overlapping safety works in a cramped site and no earnings impact yet disclosed.

  3. Kansai Electric Sets Kanto Low-Voltage Prices for November: Fixed Charges Rise, Per-kWh Rates Edge Up

    Kansai Electric's Kanto Hapi e Plus basic charge goes to ¥1,071.65 from ¥830.72 for contracts of 6kW or less on November 1, while its per-kWh rates move only slightly, in line with revised wheeling terms.

  4. Shikoku Electric Passes Grid Charge Rise to Households From November

    Shikoku Electric will raise all low-voltage plans from 1 November to pass on higher wheeling charges, with sample household bills up ¥478 to ¥777 a month and an earnings effect it expects to track the grid arm's ¥23.9bn annual gain.

  5. Kansai Electric Puts Numbers on November Tariff Rise: Sample Low-Voltage Bills Up 4.3% to 6.9%

    Kansai Electric's modeled low-voltage bills rise 4.3% to 6.9% from 1 November as revised grid charges pass through, while sample high-voltage users on the current standard menu see 2.3% to 2.9% and extra-high-voltage examples 0.5%.

  6. Tohoku Electric to Raise Power Rates for All Customers From November

    Tohoku Electric will raise electricity rates for every customer class from November 1, adding ¥485 a month to a typical household bill and around ¥17,000 to an office or commercial building's, as its grid subsidiary's revised wheeling charges take effect the same day. The company expects the change to improve group earnings by roughly ¥30bn this fiscal year, but has not folded that into full-year guidance.

  7. Hokkaido Electric to Raise Typical Household Bill 4.3% as Grid Fee Rises From November

    Hokkaido Electric is raising regulated and liberalized electricity tariffs from November 1, lifting a standard household bill from ¥11,115 to ¥11,596 as it passes through a higher grid-usage fee set by the region's grid operator.

  8. Shikoku Electric's Grid Arm Locks In ¥33.8bn Wheeling-Rate Increase

    Shikoku Electric Power Transmission & Distribution will lift wheeling charges across every voltage class from November 1, adding a net ¥33.8bn to projected revenue over two years, but the parent utility still has not decided how much of that increase reaches retail electricity bills.

  9. Kansai's Grid-Access Charges Rise Across Every Voltage Class From November

    Kansai Transmission and Distribution's METI filing raises wheeling tariffs at every voltage level from November 1, with low-voltage connections taking the biggest hit, up ¥1.22 to ¥9.04 per kWh, a cost retail electricity suppliers pay before any pass-through to customer bills is decided.

  10. Shikoku's Grid Operator Wins Approval for Revised Wheeling-Charge Revenue Forecast

    METI has approved a revised wheeling-charge revenue forecast for Shikoku Electric Power Transmission & Distribution, with new unit prices due from November 2026, but the parent still hasn't decided whether the revision will reach retail electricity bills.

  11. Kansai Electric to Raise Corporate Power Tariffs From November as Inflation and Green-Policy Costs Bite

    Kansai Electric will overhaul extra-high-voltage and high-voltage rate menus from November 1, citing inflation and rising capacity and non-fossil-certificate costs, and its own bill examples show the largest industrial users facing increases of about ¥22.22mn a month, a figure that excludes a separate, still-unpublished transmission-fee revision due the same day.

  12. Okinawa Electric Seeks ¥15.7bn Boost to Its Grid Revenue Cap

    Okinawa Electric Power wants Japan's industry ministry to lift its five-year grid-wheeling revenue cap by ¥15.7bn to ¥362.1bn, blaming inflation and interest costs its 2023 plan never priced in, with new rates targeted for November 2026 pending approval.