Kansai Electric Power Company

The Kansai Electric Power Company, Incorporated

Native name	関西電力株式会社
Romanized name	Kansai Denryoku kabushiki gaisha
Company type	Public (Kabushiki gaisha)
Traded as	TYO: 9503 OSE: 9503 (~2013) NAG: 9503 (~2014) Nikkei 225 component TOPIX Large70 component
Industry	Electric utility
Predecessor	Kansai Haiden Nippon Hassoden KK
Founded	Osaka, Japan (May 1, 1951; 73 years ago (1951-05-01))
Headquarters	Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
Area served	Kansai region (ex. Fukuura and Ako in Hyogo Prefecture) West of Mihama in Fukui Prefecture Southern area of Mie Prefecture Part of the area of Sekigahara, Gifu Prefecture
Key people	Shosuke Mori (Chair) Makoto Yagi (President)
Products	Electrical power
Revenue	¥2,811,424 million (FY 2011)[* 1]
Operating income	¥-229,388 million (FY 2011)[* 1]
Net income	¥-242,257 million (FY 2011)[* 1]
Total assets	¥7,521,352 million (FY 2011)[* 1]
Total equity	¥1,529,843 million (FY 2011)[* 1]
Owner	Osaka Municipal Government (7.64% directly, 1.73% through Osaka Metro) Kobe Municipal Government (3.06%)
Number of employees	32,961 (consolidated, as of 31 March 2012)
Subsidiaries	Kansai Transmission & Distribution, Inc. OPTAGE Inc. Kansai Amenix Co.
Website	kepco.co.jp
Footnotes / references ^ a b c d e "Financial Release for the year ended March 31, 2012" (PDF). The Kansai Electric Power Company, Inc. 27 April 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 May 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2012.

The Kansai Electric Power Company, Incorporated (Japanese: 関西電力株式会社, Kansai Denryoku kabushiki gaisha, KEPCO), also known as Kanden (関電), is an electric utility with its operational area of Kansai region, Japan (including the Keihanshin megalopolis).

The Kansai region is Japan's second-largest industrial area, and in normal times, its most nuclear-reliant. Before the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a band of 11 nuclear reactors – north of the major cities Osaka and Kyoto – supplied almost 50 percent of the region's power. As of January 2012, only one of those reactors was still running.^[1] In March 2012, the last reactor was taken off the powergrid.