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Jul 13, 2012 Local News
Kumamoto Prefecture Signs Memorandum with Kyushu Electric Power
Kumamoto Prefecture has signed a memorandum of understanding with Kyushu Electric Power concerning the Sendai nuclear power plant in Kagoshima Prefecture. The memorandum concerns ...
Jul 13, 2012 Local News
Chinese to Receive Waste Disposal Training in Fukuoka
Fukuoka City has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese government to train roughly 800 public sector employees a year in waste disposal and water conservation techn...
Jul 5, 2012 Local News
Kyushu Electric Power Sales down Second Month in a Row in May
Kyushu Electric Power reported that power sales by volume in May were down 1.3% from the year-before period to 6.458 billion kWh. That is the second consecutive year-on-year declin...
Jun 14, 2012 Local News
Sewer Sludge Used for Power Generation
The use of processed sewer sludge --- in other words, human waste --- as a biomass fuel for power generation is increasingly being used in Kyushu and throughout the nation. Kumamot...
Jun 13, 2012 Local News
Fault Lines Found Under Itoshima
Researchers at Kyushu University’s Faculty of Engineering have discovered two large changes in the fault lines under the northwest area of Itoshima. Professor Nishijima said that h...
May 24, 2012 Local News
Disaster Info Database Planned
A group of regional civil engineers, universities, and municipalities plan to create a database of disaster information for Kyushu. They have called on the Ministry of Land, Infras...
May 17, 2012 Local News
Government Calls for 12% Kyushu Power Conservation
The national government has released its proposal for power conservation this summer for all the nation’s regions. Other than for power companies in the Tokyo and Tohoku regions, t...
May 17, 2012 Local News
LED Power Control System Developed
Hakutsu Technology and Waseda University, working at Hakutsu’s headquarters in the Kitakyushu Science and Research Park, have jointly developed an automatic control system for LE...
May 17, 2012 Local News
Kyushu Electric Looking for Power Reductions of More than 5%
Kyushu Electric power has confirmed that it will seek reductions in power consumption of at least 5%. A government committee predicted that if the nuclear power reactors aren’t res...