Roppongi Hills To Offer In-House Generating Electricity To Suffering Tokyo

Posted on March 18th, 2011 by Akky Akimoto

Mori Buildings announced [J] that Roppongi Hills, office/shopping-mall/residents complex, one of the center of Tokyo and Japan's web industry, where currently Google Japan and Gree reside, once Yahoo! Japan, Rakuten and Livedoor had their offices, is going to provide electricity from its private gas turbine generator to Tokyo Electric Power Co.(TEPCO) to make up for lost supply caused by Fukushima nuclear plant trouble.

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The amount of supplied electricity will be 3-4,000kW per day, which is needed for about 1,100 houses.

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Author Information  @akky(Akky AKIMOTO) is one of the first pro-bloggers in Japan [J]. He also leads Asiajin, writes for Japan Times, does consultation for foreign companies interested in entering Japanese web market.

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