On the 13th of this month, we observed violent shaking with a seismic intensity of 6 or higher in Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures. A power outage occurred in a wide area of.
Electric power companies want to resume operation as soon as the safety of the stopped thermal power plant is confirmed, and there is no problem with the stable supply of electric power.
Immediately after the earthquake, thermal power plants in Miyagi, Fukushima, and Ibaraki prefectures were shut down one after another.
There are more than 10 power plants shut down in total, and according to the electric power companies, the reason is that the safety device worked by detecting the shaking.
When the demand for electric power exceeds the supply, the frequency is disturbed and a large-scale power outage, so-called "blackout", occurs. Therefore, a system that automatically stops power transmission operates. In this earthquake, Kanto to Tohoku In total, more than 900,000 households had a temporary power outage.
On the other hand, the power outages were all resolved the day after the earthquake, as there was no major damage to the power plant equipment.
Electric power companies want to resume operation as soon as the safety of the stopped thermal power plant is confirmed, and there is no problem with the stable supply of electric power.