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Kyushu Electric Power Transmission and Distribution Co.,Inc.Our Business and Initiatives

Our Business and Initiatives

Our Business and Initiatives

We introduce our efforts toward stable power supply, which is our mission, as well as our cost reduction initiatives aimed at maintaining and lowering wheeling charges.

Kyushu Electric Power Transmission and Distribution Co.,Inc.Our Business and Initiatives

  • Efforts for Stable Supply

    To provide our customers with a stable, high-quality electricity supply and ensure they can use it with peace of mind, we conduct daily patrols, inspections, and maintenance of our facilities, and are committed to safe and efficient operations.

    Efforts for Stable Supply

  • Advanced Initiatives

    We'll promote further efficiency and sophistication in our transmission and distribution operations by leveraging the latest technologies and other technical developments.

    Initiatives for Advanced Technology

Initiatives for Efficiency

To provide our customers with electricity at the lowest possible cost, we are working to streamline and enhance our maintenance and operational activities.

Category Main Initiatives
Personnel
  • Streamlining equipment maintenance operations using drones, AI, technology, image diagnostics, sensors, and cameras
  • Efficient on-site operations utilizing MR smart glasses
  • Outsourcing distribution and wheeling department operations
  • Centralizing shared-pole and site management operations
Procurement of Materials and Equipment
  • Expanding competitive ordering through new supplier development
  • Consolidated purchasing of required quantities and standardization of specifications
  • Joint VE activities leveraging supplier expertise and know-how
  • Pursuit of overall economic efficiency, including maintenance costs
Construction
  • Improving transport efficiency through the introduction of unmanned helicopter transport
  • Enhancing cable replacement efficiency by revising cable replacement methods
  • Developing high-voltage line relocation methods
  • Reducing material costs and improving workability by expanding the use of polymer-based equipment and materials
  • Revising renewal schedules based on equipment degradation analysis
  • Streamlining equipment inspections using sensors
  • Reducing material costs by introducing recycled insulating oil
Other
  • Reviewing the configuration of DC power supplies
  • Promoting paperless operations

Efforts to Ensure Neutrality

We introduce our efforts to ensure fairness and transparency in the use of our power transmission and distribution network.

01. Conduct Regulation

  • Code of Conduct
    To ensure greater fairness, transparency, and neutrality in the use of our transmission and distribution network, we have established a “Code of Conduct” that all directors and employees must adhere to.
  • Entrusted Operations
    Based on the "Guideline for Fair Electricity Transactions," when our company is entrusted with operations for a retail electricity, power generation, or specific wholesale supply business from a specified related business operators, we will publicize the equivalent operations that can be entrusted.
  • Concurrent Employment for Employees
    Based on the "Guidelines for Appropriate Electricity Trading," if we hold a concurrent position with a specified related business operator, we will disclose the details of that position.

02. Power Transmission and Distribution Rules

Based on the nationwide transmission and distribution rules (Operational Rules and T&D Operations Guidelines) formulated and published by the Organization for Cross-regional Coordination of Transmission Operators,Japan (OCCTO), we have established four internal rules for our existing T&D operations. By complying with these, we will ensure even greater fairness and transparency in the use of our T&D network (effective April 1, 2015).

  • Equipment formation Rules
  • Grid Access Rules
  • Grid Operations Rules
  • Information Disclosure Rules

03. Business Improvement Plan

Based on Article 27, Paragraph 1 of the Electricity Business Act, we have formulated a business improvement plan aimed at preventing recurrence in response to the business improvement order (April 17, 2023).