Reference 1

23 July 1999

Federation of Electoric Power Companies

1. Forecasts of Peak Load & Supply during the summer 1999(Gross Output across the 10 Companies)

Peak Load (A) mkW	176.64
Supply Capability (B) mkW	198.37
Marginal Supply Capability (C) =(B)-(A) mkW	21.73
Marginal Supply Capability Ratio (D)=(C)/(A) %	12.3

Results of Peak Load in recent Years(Gross Output across the 10 Companies)

	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
Recorded Date	4 September	25 August	4 August	25 August	2 August	2 September	3 August
Peak Load(mkW)	153.79	144.74	167.36	171.13	167.55	167.83	168.32
Inrease compared to previous year(mkW)	4.75	-9.05	22.62	3.77	-3.58	0.28	0.49
Increase rate(%)	3.2	-5.9	15.6	2.3	-2.1	0.2	0.3

Trend of Peak Load(Gross Output across the 10 companies)

2. Results of Maximum Electricity Consumption in recent Years(across the 10 Companies)

	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
Recorded Date	4 Septemb	25 August	4 August	25 August	2 August	2 Septemb	3 August
Peak Load(mkWh)	2,749.374	2,579.998	3,027.095	3,071.303	3,064.538	3,048.538	3,091.932
Inrease compared to previous year(mkWh)	60.977	-169.376	447.097	44.208	-6.765	-16.166	43.560
Increase rate(%)	2.3	-6.2	17.3	1.5	-0.2	-0.5	1.4

(Record High)

Trend of Maximum Electricity Consumption(across the 10 companies)

3. Load Sensitivity to Temperature(weekdays in summer season)

1998(across the ten companies) 4.8mkW/C
(	"Load Sensibility to Temperature" explains correlation between temperature and peak load, and is volume of maximum power increased by every 1C.	)

Trend of Shipment of Air Conditioners

4. Major New Power Plant Operations Begun or will be operational from September 1998 to August 1999

	Company	Power Plant Name	unit	Output(mkW)	Start Month, Year
Hydro Power Plant	Hokkaido Electric Power Company	Takisato		0.057	July 1999
Thermal Power Plant	Tohoku Electric Power Company	Higashiniigata	No.4-1	0.805	July 1999
	Tokyo Electric Power Company	Chiba	No.1-4 No.2-1 No.1-3 No.2-2	0.36 0.36 0.36 0.36	December 1998 February 1999 April 1999 July 1999
	Chubu Electric Power Company	Shinnagoya	No.7-2 No.7-3, No.7-4 No.7-5, No.7-6	0.243 0.243x2 0.243x2	October 1998 November 1998 December 1998

Individual Power Plant(IPP) Operations Begun in 1999

Recieving Company	IPP Facility Name	Output(mkW)	Start Month, Year
Tokyo Electric Power Company	EBARA Corporation SHOWA DENKO K.K. TOMEN POWER SAMUKAWA CORPORATION Hitachi Zosen Corporation	0.064 0.1242 0.0655 0.1027	July 1999 July 1999 July 1999 July 1999
Kansai Electric Power Company	NIPPON STEEL Corporation Hirohata Works NAKAYAMA KYODO HATSUDEN CO.,LTD. KOBE STEEL KAKOGAWA WORKS	0.133 0.144 0.0545	April 1999 April 1999 April 1999
Kyushu Electric Power Company	NIPPON STEEL Corporation(Tobata) KYUSHU OIＬ CO.,LTD.	0.137 0.137	April 1999 April 1999

Total(figures of Decommisioned plants are included)

3.954

Appendix 1 : Trends in Daily Electricity Use (Daily Load Curve, total across 10 companies)

Appendix 2 : Outline of Efforts to Introduce Demand Side Management

(1)Supply and Demand Adjustment Contract
	A discount system for electricity rates that applies discounts in proportion to the amount of electricity used. In return for reducing their power consumption during certain specified periods, customers are granted reduced electricity rates. Options include the Annual Adjustment Contract, which shifts load from the daytime to nighttime on weekdays, holidays, and the like throughout the year, and the Planned Adjustment Contract, which reduces load during the period forecast to have the hottest weather.
(1)Changes in Load Resulting from Supply and Demand Adjustment Contract Implementation (Total of 10 Companies) (mkW) FY 1992 FY 1993 FY 1994 FY 1995 FY 1996 FY 1997 FY 1998 FY 1999 Annual Adjustment Contract 3.12 3.09 3.08 3.01 3.17 3.40 3.60 3.49 Planned Adjustment Contract 2.74 3.10 3.56 3.41 3.32 3.48 4.42 4.82 Thermal Storage Adjustment Contract 0.56 0.62 0.64 0.76 0.84 0.93 1.04 1.20 Total 6.41 6.80 7.28 7.18 7.32 7.80 9.06 9.50 *Notes: Because of rounding, grand totals do not necessarily correspond with the totals for each type of contract.
(2)Ice Thermal Storage Type Air-Conditioning System(Eco Ice)
	Customers can take advantage of lower nighttime electricity rates to store thermal energy at night, and use that energy to cool their buildings during the day. As a result, customers can benefit from reduced electricity rates. (Reduced load by introducing Eco Ice in this summer will be approx. 0.25mkW which is included in the 1999 figure of Thermal Storage Adjustment Contract)
(2) Ice Thermal Storage Type Air-Conditioning System Installations (Total of 10 Companies) (unit) Number recorded at the end of FY 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 Decentralized Type 63 93 122 204 587 1,306 2,753 2,968 Centralized Type 370 485 576 669 822 1,002 1,195 1,223 Total 433 578 698 873 1,409 2,308 3,948 4,191 *Figures for FY1999 are based on bulletin figures from January to April
(3) Eco-Venders
	An energy-saving vending machine for beverages that was developed jointly by Tokyo Electric Power Company, Fuji Electric Company and Coca-Cola Japan Company Ltd. in 1995. Compared with conventional vending machines, Eco-Venders are equipped with improved insulation, and can cool beverages thoroughly during the morning hours, and then cut their power consumption by about 90% on summer afternoons, when electricity demand is at its highest. (Reduced load by introducing Eco-Vender in this summer will be approx. 0.34mkW)
Eco-Vender Installations(Total of 10 Companies) (unit) end of FY 1995 end of FY 1996 end of FY 1997 end of FY 1998 May FY 1999* Number of unit 578 35,440 288,224 614,742 682,430 *Figures for 1999 are based on bulletin figures from January to the end of May 1999