Japan's Kansai restarts mothballed oil-fired unit

Kansai Electric began generating electricity from the mothballed 450 megawatt oil-fired Kainan No.2 unit despite restarting a unit of its nuclear power plant.

This is intended to help meet a power shortfall over the summer months amid the wide-spread closure of nuclear plants.

Kansai had originally planned to restart the ageing No.2 unit, which had been mothballed since 2001/02, in mid-July.

The  power utility already restarted the 1,180-megawatt No. 3 unit at its Ohi atomic plant, marking the country's first nuclear reactor to come back online since the Fukushima crisis, despite public safety concerns.

Businesses and consumers served by Kansai Electric in and around Osaka, western Japan, have been asked to cut

power consumption by 15 percent this summer to cope with the shortfall in its output.

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