This month, the "Power Supply and Demand Tight Warning" was issued for the first time in Japan within the jurisdiction of TEPCO.
Tomoaki Kobayakawa, president of TEPCO, said at a press conference held on the 30th, "Thanks to everyone's cooperation, I cannot thank you enough" for the fact that power outages were avoided by efforts to save electricity at homes and businesses.
As the earthquake that occurred on the 16th of this month caused the operation of multiple power plants to stop and the power supply capacity to decline, the government said that the temperature would drop and the demand for heating would increase, leading to a large-scale power outage. For the first time, we issued a "power supply and demand tight warning" in the jurisdiction and in the Tohoku Electric Power jurisdiction.
Power outages were avoided by efforts to save electricity at homes and businesses, but TEPCO President Kobayakawa said at a press conference on the 30th, "Thanks to everyone's cooperation in saving electricity, we are grateful that we survived this situation. I can't finish it. "
On top of that, he said that the thermal power plant, which had been shut down due to the earthquake, has not recovered and the supply capacity has not returned, and continued to call for efficient use of electricity.
On the other hand, in response to a question from a reporter that he was late in expressing his message as president while calling on users to save electricity, he said, "I would like to take this opportunity to thank you."