Kansai Electric Power Company
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The Kansai Electric Power Company, Incorporated (Japanese: 関西電力株式会社, Kansai Denryoku kabushiki gaisha, KEPCO), also known as Kanden (関電), is an electric utility with its operational area of Kansai region, Japan (including the Keihanshin megalopolis).
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Native name | 関西電力株式会社 |
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Romanized name | Kansai Denryoku kabushiki gaisha |
| Type | Public (Kabushiki gaisha) |
| Industry | Electric utility |
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| Founded | Osaka, Japan (1 May 1951 (1951-05-01)) |
| Headquarters | Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan |
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| Products | Electrical power |
| Revenue |  ¥2,811,424 million (FY 2011)[* 1] |
 ¥-229,388 million (FY 2011)[* 1] | |
| ¥-242,257 million (FY 2011)[* 1] | |
| Total assets | ¥7,521,352 million (FY 2011)[* 1] |
| Total equity | ¥1,529,843 million (FY 2011)[* 1] |
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Number of employees | 32,961 (consolidated, as of 31 March 2012) |
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| Website | www |
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The Kansai region is Japan's second-largest industrial area, and in normal times, its most nuclear-reliant. Before the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a band of 11 nuclear reactors – north of the major cities Osaka and Kyoto – supplied almost 50 percent of the region's power. As of January 2012, only one of those reactors was still running.[1] In March 2012, the last reactor was taken off the powergrid.