KANSAI POWER II

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The Second Kansai Hydroelectric Project for Japan, is also called The Kurobe project, a reservoir controlled hydroelectric installation, which will have a capacity of 258 MW. It will add 1.3 billion kwh per year to Kansai's energy supply. Kansai serves the most heavily industrialized area in Japan. The project is part of an expansion program which Kansai plans to add 2.3 million kw of capacity to their facilities within the next 7 years. This will include four hydroelectric projects and related transmission lines. Three of these will be owned and operated by privately owned electric power companies and the fourth by the Electric Power Development Company, a government agency which sells energy to private power companies. This project covers the appraisal of the Kurobe No. 4 hydroelectric development in the western part of Honshu is being constructed by private power companies. There has not been a serious power shortage in Japan since 1955, although industry has been operating extremely close to its ultimate capacity.