Hokkaido Electric Power Company
The Hokkaido Electric Power Co., Inc., or Hokuden for short, is the monopoly electric company of Hokkaidō, Japan. It is also known as Dōden and HEPCO. The company is traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the.
According to the company profile, during fiscal 2011, 26% of the electricity generated was from nuclear, 31% from coal, 15% from hydro, 8% from oil and 2% from 'new energy' sources.
Hokkaido only has one nuclear power station, the Tomari Nuclear Power Plant.
Facilities
- Nuclear
- *Tomari
- Coal
- *Tomato-atsuma Thermal Power Station
- *Naie
- *Sunagawa
- Geothermal energy
- *Mori
- Hydro electric – 53 dams including the following:
- * Kyogoku pumped storage project
- *Hoheikyo, Ishikari River
- *Kamiiwamatsu, Tokachi River
- *Niikappu, Niikappu River
- *Nokanan, Ishikari River
- *Okuniikappu, Niikappu River
- *Shizunai, Shizunai River
- *Takami, Shizunai River
- *Takisato, Ishikari River
- *Tokachi, Tokachi River
- *Tomura, Tokachi River
- *Uryu, Ishikari River
- Oil
- *Date
- *Shiriuchi
- *Tomakomai
- Diesel
- *Onbetsu
- Wind farms – 3 facilities
- Solar energy – 9 facilities
Generating capacity by source
| Source | Megawatts | Percentage | Number of units |
| Coal | 2,250 | 30 | 3 |
| Nuclear | 2,070 | 27.5 | 3 |
| Oil | 1,650 | 22 | 3 |
| Hydro | 1,231 | 16 | 53 |
| Diesel | 280 | 4 | 1 |
| Geo-thermal | 50 | 0.5 | 1 |
| Other | 2 | - | |
| Total | 7,533 | 100 | 62? |