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The outline of “The 34th TOKEIKAI” decided
Mr. Ishida, manager The Kansai Electric Power Company, holds special lecture

January 18th, 2016

TOYOKEIKI (Matsumoto City, President and CEO: Yasuhide Tsuchida) is going to hold the 34th “TOKEIKAI”. It will begin to hold one of them “Kanto TOKEIKAI” at March 4 and hold the other TOKEIKAI at 11 locations in our country.

It is going to invite Mr. Fumiaki Ishida, The Kansai Electric Power Company’s manager of regional energy development group in regional energy system department, to hold a lecture presentation “Electricity & Gas -Energy business in the future-”. Because liberalization of retail electricity sales in Japan has started, it is meaningful for the gas industry to know the efforts of The Kansai Electric Power Company, which is a major example of electricity companies trying to be an integrated energy company. His profile is as follows.

Mr. Fumiaki Ishida’s profile

The Kansai Electric Power Company’s manager of regional energy development group in regional energy system department
Bachelor of Engineering, University of Tokyo in 1986
He entered The Kansai Electric Power Company (hereafter KEPCO) in 1986. In the company, mainly he participated in the project of electric power substations, and did power system analysis. Then, he became a group manager of R & D office in 2003 and manager of secretary’s office in 2007. In 2009, he went to NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization) for temporary assignment as a researcher of new energy department, came back to KEPCO and became the manager in charge of regional energy development in general planning department in 2012. He has been in his post since 2015.
Now he engages in strategy decision on “Smart Grid”, “Smart Community”, and renewable energy. His specialty is power system planning, analysis technology, renewable energy technology, Smart Grid technology.

Furthermore, TOYOKEIKI’s president and CEO Yasuhide Tsuchida will hold a presentation named “New rate plan -Switch On-”. We are going into a phase where “New rate plan” is a major key to gas industry’s development because the new energy era will arrive. This time, TOYOKEIKI is going to release past performances of gas expansion by using “New rate plan”, simulation examples calculated by “Integrated Rate Calculation Software”, “New ultrasonic meter with built-in Felica”, “New e-gas ticket”, and prepaid “e-gas charge”.

In Chugoku TOKEIKAI and the other TOKEIKAI after that, Kazuhiro Miyazawa, the president of WELLNET CORPORATION (listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange), will give the presentation of the way of using “e-gas ticket”, with which WELLNET has a partnership.

The date of TOKEIKAI of each area is as follows.

TOYOKEIKI will contribute to the development of the energy industry through TOKEIKAI in the future.

The date of TOKEIKAI

Area Date Location
Kanto Friday, March 4 Keio Plaza Hotel
Chugoku Wednesday, March 9 HOTEL GRANVIA HIROSHIMA
Kyusyu Friday, March 11 Hotel New Otani Hakata
Shikoku Wednesday, March 16 JR Hotel Clement Takamatsu
Kansai Friday, March 18 HOTEL GRANVIA OSAKA
Tokai Thursday, March 24 Nagoya Marriott Associa Hotel
Nagano Wednesday, April 6 Hotel Buena Vista
Tohoku Tuesday, April 12 Hotel Metropolitan Sendai
Hokkaido Thursday, April 14 Keio Plaza Hotel Sapporo
Niigata Wednesday, April 20 Hotel Nikko Niigata
Hokuriku Friday, April 22 ANA CROWNE PLAZA KANAZAWA