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The Japan News/Yomiuri
The Japan News/Yomiuri
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The Yomiuri Shimbun

Restarted plant helps ease electricity crunch

People walk along a street with a cooling mist system in Toshima Ward, Tokyo, on Thursday. (Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

The restarting of a power plant allowed the government to lift its power crunch advisory for the Kanto region on Thursday evening, after four consecutive days of warnings amid a heat wave that has stretched the electrical grid.

JERA Co. restarted a 600-megawatt unit at its Anegasaki Thermal Power Station in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture.

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