Tue, 21-Oct-2025

A power plant closure increases fears of a blackout as June in Tokyo burns out in a record hot

A power plant

The pressure of Tokyo’s warmest June stretch since 1875 caused Japan’s energy grid to squeak on Thursday,  On the sixth day of a heatwave that started following the earliest conclusion to the capital’s rainy season in decades,   Tokyo came with reserve power capacity hovering around 3 percent – the level below which blackouts can … Read more