{"id":369018,"date":"2025-12-26T01:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/369018\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T01:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:14:10","slug":"japans-10-major-power-firms-to-cut-rates-by-over-%c2%a51000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/369018\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s 10 major power firms to cut rates by over \u00a51,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s 10 major power utilities Thursday announced plans to lower their electricity rates by over \u00a51,000 for a standard household next January, thanks to a resumption of government subsidies to cushion the impact of inflation.<\/p>\n<p>The fee for an average household is set to fall by \u00a51,170 to \u00a57,464 in the regular service area of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings.<\/p>\n<p>Chubu Electric Power will see the steepest drop among the power utilities at \u00a51,175, while Hokkaido Electric Power will have the smallest drop at \u00a51,028.<\/p>\n<p>Government subsidies for household electricity bills are set at \u00a54.5 per kilowatt-hour.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the government will give city gas subsidies of \u00a518 per cubic meter.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Tokyo Gas&#8217; rate for a standard household will fall \u00a5545 to \u00a55,106.<\/p>\n<p>Osaka Gas will see the largest drop at \u00a5548, and Saibu Gas the smallest at \u00a5419.<\/p>\n<p>The government has been subsidizing electricity and gas rates intermittently since 2023, automatically reflecting them in consumers&#8217; utility bills as discounts based on their power and city gas usage.<\/p>\n<p>The new round of subsidies covers January-March 2026, when heating demand typically rises. The government expects the measure to curb household utility bills by a total of about \u00a57,300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s 10 major power utilities Thursday announced plans to lower their electricity rates by over \u00a51,000 for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,16745,16806,157918],"class_list":{"0":"post-369018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-electricity","13":"tag-gas","14":"tag-tepco"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}