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Tokyo Electric Burns More Oil, Gas on Nuclear Reactor Shutdown

By Megumi Yamanaka

Feb. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co., forced to shut the world's biggest nuclear power station after an earthquake, burned more oil and gas to generate electricity in January to make up for lower atomic output.

Asia's biggest utility used 762,000 kiloliters of fuel oil, double the amount it burned a year earlier, the company said on its Web site. Crude oil consumption tripled to 392,000 kiloliters, and liquefied natural gas usage increased 18 percent to 1.72 million metric tons.

Tokyo Electric's Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear plant was shut indefinitely after it was hit by an earthquake on July 16 that was measured at magnitude 6.8 by Japan's Meteorological Agency.

The following is a table of Tokyo Electric's fuel use for thermal power generation. Coal and LNG figures are in metric tons, while those for fuel oil and crude oil are in kiloliters.



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January 2008 January 2007

Fuel oil 762,000 316,000
Crude oil 392,000 113,000
LNG 1,723,000 1,458,000
Coal 368,000 346,000
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Source: Tokyo Electric Power Co.

To contact the reporter on this story: Megumi Yamanaka in Tokyo at [email protected] .

Last Updated: February 12, 2008 21:44 EST