Tepco will raise the electricity cost for the families

 

Tepco will raise the electricity bill for non-corporation consumers by 5~15% to pay for compensation and abandoning the nuclear plants.
Tepco employees were paid bonus last December (Average 300,000JPY) but they claim they will have 600 billion yen of deficit for this March. They assert “If they can’t re-start nuclear plants, they will have 800~900 billion of deficit annually, it can’t be a business.”.

Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Edano refused them to try to raise the electricity bill the end of last year.
However, if Tepco goes bankrupt, they can no longer pay for compensation and abandoning the reactors. Japanese government agreed with Tepco to raise the fee.
Japanese citizens will be compensated from their own electric fee after Tepco steals their own profit.

(Source)
東電、家庭向け料金も値上げ 政府、合理化条件に容認へ
政府と東京電力は、家庭向け電気料金の値上げについて調整に入った。原発に代わる火力発電の燃料費が収益を圧迫するなか、企業向けの値上げだけでは東電存続の青写真を描けず、政府も家庭向けの値上げが避けられないとの判断に傾いた。上げ幅は5~15%の間で調整が進むとみられる。

東電の今年3月期の連結業績は、純損益が6千億円の赤字になる見通し。原発が再稼働しないと、毎年8千億~9千億円規模の赤字が続き、電気事業が成り立たなくなる。

値上げには経済産業相の認可が必要になる。枝野幸男経産相は昨年暮れ、「値上げは電力事業者の権利という考えを改めてもらいたい」と述べ、値上げに厳しい姿勢を示していた。

しかし、東電が経営破綻(はたん)すると、被害者への賠償や廃炉作業が難しくなるおそれがある。そうした事態を避けるため、政府は徹底したリストラと経営責任の明確化を条件に、値上げを認める方針を固めた。

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This website updates the latest news about the Fukushima nuclear plant and also archives the past news from 2011. Because it's always updated and added live, articles, categories and the tags are not necessarily fitted in the latest format.
I am the writer of this website. About page remains in 2014. This is because my memory about 311 was clearer than now, 2023, and I think it can have a historical value. Now I'm living in Romania with 3 cats as an independent data scientist.
Actually, nothing has progressed in the plant since 2011. We still don't even know what is going on inside. They must keep cooling the crippled reactors by water, but additionally groundwater keeps flowing into the reactor buildings from the broken parts. This is why highly contaminated water is always produced more than it can circulate. Tepco is planning to officially discharge this water to the Pacific but Tritium is still remaining in it. They dilute this with seawater so that it is legally safe, but scientifically the same amount of radioactive tritium is contained. They say it is safe to discharge, but none of them have drunk it.

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