{"id":180878,"date":"2026-11-12T11:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T02:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=180878&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2026-11-12T11:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T02:16:17","slug":"kyushu-electric-announces-winter-electricity-and-gas-discounts","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/kyushu-electric-announces-winter-electricity-and-gas-discounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyushu Electric announces winter electricity and gas discounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyushu Electric will discount household electricity and city-gas bills issued from January through March 2027 under the national energy-support program. Electricity charges will fall by 1 yen per kWh on January bills and 4.5 yen per kWh on February and March bills. City-gas discounts will be 4 yen per cubic meter in January and 18 yen in February and March. KBC reports that a standard household is expected to save about 7,000 yen over the three months. The discounts will be deducted automatically, with no application required. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/kbc.co.jp\/news\/article.php?id=18488934&#038;ymd=2026-11-11\" target=\"_blank\">KBC News<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyuden.co.jp\/important\/gekihenkanwa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kyushu Electric Power Co<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/fnn_kyuden-bldg_2026_WEB.jpeg?resize=1400%2C1050&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-176328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/fnn_kyuden-bldg_2026_WEB.jpeg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/fnn_kyuden-bldg_2026_WEB.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/fnn_kyuden-bldg_2026_WEB.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/fnn_kyuden-bldg_2026_WEB.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><br \/>\nPhoto: Fukuoka Now<\/p>\n<p>Get Fukuoka and Kyushu\u2019s top stories delivered to your inbox. The Now is Fukuoka Now\u2019s free biweekly newsletter featuring local news, events, culture, business, and community updates in English. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\">Subscribe to The Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summaries based on public content, errors may occur during translation. Images credited independently. Send feedback using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/contact\/\">this <strong>form<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyushu Electric will discount household electricity and city-gas bills issued from January through March 2027 under the national energy-support program. Electricity charges will fall by 1 yen per kWh on January&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30292,"featured_media":176328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-180878","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/180878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}