Nine power systems - Nine power systems

...Repeated restrictions on electricity transmission were imposed from 1946 to the early 1950s, which demonstrated the limits of state control of electricity. The state electricity control system, which had internal factors that could cause it to collapse, was decisively dismantled by GHQ, and in 1951 it was reorganized into a nine-electric power system consisting of Hokkaido Electric Power, Tohoku Electric Power, Tokyo Electric Power, Chubu Electric Power, Hokuriku Electric Power, Kansai Electric Power, Chugoku Electric Power, Shikoku Electric Power, and Kyushu Electric Power, integrating generation, transmission, and distribution based on regional monopolies. [Hashimoto Hisaaki]
[Reorganization of the power industry and the nine-power system]
The nine-electric power system was supplemented the following year in 1952 by the establishment of the Electric Power Development Company, a government-funded special corporation.

*Some of the terminology used in reference to the "nine-electric power system" is listed below.

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…46年から50年代初頭には送電制限が繰り返されたが，それは電力国家管理の限界を物語るものであった。内的な崩壊要因を抱えた電力国家管理体制は，GHQがその解体を意図していたことが決め手となって，51年には地域独占に基づく発･送･配電を統合した，北海道電力，東北電力，東京電力，中部電力，北陸電力，関西電力，中国電力，四国電力，九州電力による9電力体制へと再編されたのである。【橋本 寿朗】
［電力再編成と9電力体制］
　9電力体制は，翌1952年に政府出資の特殊法人電源開発会社の設立によって補完されることになった。…

※「９電力体制」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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