Trains have resumed the original time table and operations are in standard service now.
But most of companies are saving electric power.
The government has asked us to cut the power up to 25%, comparing to the previous year.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has the capability of supplying 36,000kW in the end of March, 2011 due to the devastating earthquake occurred in the 11th March。
Summer is the peak season of consuming electric power in Japan.
So, it is said that TEPCO needs to supply at least 55,000kW in the end of July.
As of the 20th April, TEPCO can supply 41,500kW, in the meantime 33,500kw will be expected to consume.
So far, so good now.
But hot summer is coming. You need to save the power more.
The governor of Tokyo Metropolitan City said that the power of many vending machines scattered in Tokyo should be cut. You can save the power comparable to one NUC power plant by doing so.
This is the quite radical opinion but I will go with him ;)
Now every train stations, shops in Tokyo are a little bit dark in order to save the power.
Even in business office they cut some of fluorescent lamps over your head.
So Japan is now a bit dark but even so brighter than the cities in EU and USA.
Japan was consuming a lot of power in the past. Now is the good chance to reconsider our life.
Physically Japan is now dark country but it could invent energy-saving systems more than before.
When it could succeed in inventing many good systems, Japan would be a logically brighter country than it used to be.
I hope Japan is going in the right direction.
Vending machines at a train station.
