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May 3, 2012 Local News
Kyushu Electric to Create New Organization to Provide Atomic Power Info
Kyushu Electric Power announced that will it create the Atomic Power Communication Headquarters in July to provide information to the public on its atomic power generation enterpri...
May 3, 2012 Local News
Kitakyushu Receives Orders for Water Supply Business from Two New Cambodian Cities
The city of Kitakyushu already has agreements for providing technological and infrastructural assistance to nine Cambodian cities for water supply and sewage systems, and they will...
Apr 26, 2012 Local News
Kyushu Electric Power Shortage Could Reach 4.6% This Summer
A government committee examining power supply and demand projections for this summer held their first meeting and released their outlook based on the assumption that none of the co...
Apr 19, 2012 Local News
Kyushu Electric’s Nuclear Power Plant Operation Rate at 31% Last Year
The utilization rate of the nuclear power plants operated by Kyushu Electric Power in 2011 fell by 49.7 percentage points to 31.4%. This was the lowest rate since 1975, when the fi...
Apr 12, 2012 Local News
Plant for Converting Sewage Sludge to Fuel to be Build in Nagasaki
Mitsubishi Nagasaki Machinery, the Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, and Nagasaki City announced they will build a plant in the city to process sewage sludge into solid fuel u...
Apr 5, 2012 Local News
Yufuin Ryokan to Sell Hot Spring-Generated Electricity to Kyushu Electric
A ryokan, or Japanese-style inn, in Yufuin, Oita Prefecture, will generate electricity using the hot springs on the site using a 70 kW generator that went on sale last fall from Ko...
Mar 29, 2012 Local News
Kyushu Ground Database Enhanced
The Kyushu branch of the Japanese Geotechnical Society completed the revision of its database on soil conditions and the ground in all the Kyushu prefectures, enabling a more detai...
Mar 29, 2012 Local News
Council to Promote Kyushu Agriculture Formed
A council to promote agriculture in Kyushu as a growth industry, created through an alliance of representatives from the agricultural, commercial, and industrial sectors, held its ...
Mar 23, 2012 Local News
Trials to Use Hot Springs for Power to Begin
Unzen in Nagasaki Prefecture and Oguni-machi in Kumamoto Prefecture plan to begin trials of power generating systems using local hot springs. The two municipalities were chosen for...
Mar 23, 2012 Local News
Three Ministries Certify Saga Historical Program
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, in addition to the education and agriculture ministries, have certified a Saga City program for restoring historical buildings ...
