Strengthening cost competitiveness in Japan's increasingly liberalized market

「The company will accelerate its efforts to reduce power generation costs and administrative overhead, including transforming business processes through digitalization and upgrading facility maintenance, with the aim of further improving profitability.」

「As electricity sales to the wholesale electricity market increase and the value of electricity becomes segmented into supply capacity, balancing capacity and non-fossil value, the Group will maximize corporate value by strengthening its production operations through continuous efforts to improve cost competitiveness, increase the flexibility of facility operations in response to market needs and optimize maintenance, while making stable supply and safety the overriding priorities, and by diversifying its sales methods.」

「In the power generation business, where market competition is intensifying with the abolition of wholesale regulations, among other developments, the Group will achieve further growth by using cost competitiveness as a key advantage while fulfilling its expected role in revitalizing the wholesale electricity market, which is essential to realizing a competitive market.」

「In response to these circumstances, we made the stable operation of our coal-fired and hydroelectric power generation facilities and transmission and transformation facilities one of the priority initiatives in our medium-term management plan. By operating our price-competitive power generation facilities stably in the domestic market as deregulation progresses, we aim to achieve further growth while fulfilling the role expected of us in revitalizing the wholesale electricity market, which is essential to the development of a competitive market.」

「By operating price-competitive power generation facilities reliably in Japan's increasingly liberalized market, the company will achieve further growth while fulfilling its expected role in revitalizing the wholesale electricity market, which is essential to realizing a competitive market. Accordingly, its medium-term management plan identifies the stable operation of its coal-fired and hydroelectric power generation facilities, as well as its transmission and transformation facilities, as one of its priority initiatives.」

「By operating price-competitive power generation facilities reliably in Japan's increasingly liberalized market, the company will achieve further growth while fulfilling its expected role in revitalizing the wholesale electricity market, which is essential to realizing a competitive market.」

「To build a foundation for further growth in Japan's increasingly liberalized market and become a power generator that can remain competitive by using cost competitiveness as a key advantage」