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Electricity sector in Japan | Wikipedia audio article

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00:01:06 1 Consumption
00:01:42 2 Liberalization of the electricity market
00:02:59 3 Transmission
00:04:18 4 Mode of production
00:04:56 4.1 Nuclear power
00:07:31 4.2 Hydro power
00:08:20 4.3 Other renewables
00:10:15 5 Power stations
00:10:24 6 Grid storage
00:10:47 7 See also



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The electric power industry in Japan covers the generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electric energy in Japan. Japan consumed 995.26 TWh of electricity in 2014.
Before the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, about one third of electricity in the country was generated by nuclear power.
In the following years, most nuclear power plants have been on hold, being replaced mostly by coal and natural gas.
Solar power is a growing source of electricity, and Japan has the third largest solar PV installed capacity with about 50 GW as of 2017.
Japan has the second largest pumped-hydro storage installed capacity in the world after China.
The electrical grid in Japan is isolated, with no international connections, and consists of two wide area synchronous grids which run at different frequencies and are connected by HVDC connections.
This considerably limits the amount of electricity that can be transmitted between the north and south of the country.