Wholesale Electricity Business - oroshidenkijigyo

…Under this law, electricity rates were subject to notification, and the supply obligations of business operators were merely determined by enforcement regulations. The law was subsequently amended in 1931 to include wholesale electricity business, make rates subject to approval, and legalize the obligation to supply electricity and the obligation to maintain voltage and frequency at the supply point. As the economy shifted to a wartime regime from the Manchurian Incident to the Sino-Japanese War, the demand for national control of electricity grew stronger, and in 1938 the Electric Power Control Law, the Japan Electric Power Transmission Co., Ltd. Law, the Law Concerning the Processing of Corporate Bonds Associated with Electric Power Control, and a partial amendment to the Electricity Business Law were enacted. As a result, the government took control of electricity generation and transmission, entrusting the majority of this to Japan Electric Power Transmission Co., Ltd., and the government supervised the company and had the power to decide on facility plans, electricity rates, and other important matters related to electricity supply, realizing a national control system for electricity. …

*Some of the terminology used in reference to the "wholesale electricity business" is listed below.

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…同法では電気料金は届出とされ，事業者の供給義務は施行規則で定められるにとどまった。その後，31年に同法が改正され，電気事業に卸電気事業が加えられ，料金は認可制となり，供給義務，供給地点における電圧･周波数の保持義務が法定された。　満州事変から日華事変へと経済が戦時体制化するにともなって，電力の国家管理の要請が強まり，1938年に，電力管理法，日本発送電株式会社法，電力管理に伴う社債処理に関する法律，電気事業法の一部改正が成立した結果，政府が発電･送電を管理下におき，その大部分を日本発送電株式会社に行わせ，かつ政府が同社を監督し，設備計画，電気料金その他電力供給に関する重要事項の決定権を持つ，電力の国家管理体制が実現した。…

※「卸電気事業」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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