Climate ChangeJapan's Kansai Electric cancels new LNG-fired power plant
Utility to focus on decarbonization as nuclear reactors restart
Kansai Electric, which serves greater Osaka, has been scaling back its fossil-fuel power operations. (Kansai Electric Power Co.)
HISASHI IWATO and SHIMPEI NAKAMURA, Nikkei staff writers
December 19, 2023 02:43 JST
OSAKA -- Kansai Electric Power has decided not to build a new liquefied natural gas-fired power plant planned southwest of Osaka, Nikkei has learned, shifting its resources instead to hydrogen, nuclear and other energy sources that can help reduce carbon emissions.