Chugoku Electric Power Company

{{Short description|Japanese electric utility company}}

{{Infobox company

| name = The Chugoku Electric Power Company, Incorporated
中国電力株式会社

| logo = Logo_Chūgoku_Denryoku.svg

| caption =

| type = Public KK ({{tyo|9504}})

| location_city = Hiroshima, Hiroshima

| location_country = Japan

| locations =

| area_served = Chūgoku region of Japan

| industry = Energy

| revenue = ¥1,038,443 million (2010, consolidated)

| operating_income = ¥81,515 million (2010, consolidated)

| net_income = ¥31,001 million (2010, consolidated)

| assets = ¥2,781,990 million (2010, consolidated)

| equity = ¥679,685 million (2010, consolidated)

| num_employees = 14,146 (2010, consolidated)

| homepage = {{URL|www.energia.co.jp}}

| footnotes =

}}

{{nihongo|The Chugoku Electric Power Company, Incorporated|{{Langx|ja|中国電力株式会社}}|Chūgoku Denryoku Kabushiki-gaisha}}, trading as {{nihongo|EnerGia|{{Langx|ja|エネルギア}}|Enerugia}} (Latin for "energy") is an electric utility with its exclusive operational area of Chūgoku region of Japan. It is the sixth largest by electricity sales among Japan's ten regional power utilities. It operates the Shimane Nuclear Power Plant.

In 1982, Chugoku Electric Power Company proposed building a nuclear power plant near the island of Iwaishima, but many residents opposed the idea, and the island's fishing cooperative voted overwhelmingly against the plans. In January 1983, almost 400 islanders staged a protest march, which was the first of more than 1,000 protests the islanders carried out. Since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011 there has been wider opposition to construction plans for the plant.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/world/asia/28nuclear.html |title=Japanese Island's Activists Resist Nuclear Industry's Allure |author=Hiroko Tabuchi |author-link=Hiroko Tabuchi |date=August 27, 2011 |work=New York Times }}{{cite web |url=http://santarosa.loweselectrician.com/ |title=Electric Power Company Operational Area |author=Juliet Ledesma |date=December 20, 2013 |work=Lowes Electric Power Company |access-date=November 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124210450/http://santarosa.loweselectrician.com/ |archive-date=November 24, 2015 |url-status=usurped }}

In December 2024, Chugoku Electric Power announced to restart its Shimane nuclear power station in western Japan which has been shuttered since 2011. {{Cite news |date=December 7, 2024 |title=Japan's Chugoku Elec restarts Shimane reactor for first time in 13 years |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/japans-chugoku-elec-restarts-shimane-reactor-first-time-13-years-2024-12-07/}}

To restart the Shimane reactor, Chugoku Electric would need a total investment of almost $6 billion. {{Cite news |date=Dec 7, 2024 |title=Chugoku Electric restarts Shimane reactor for first time in 13 years |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/07/japan/shimane-reactor-restart/}}