Electric power engineering in Japan

Since the end of World War II, the installed generated capacity in Japan has increased at an average annual rate of 10.7 percent. In March 1966 it totaled almost 35 000 MW, and by 1975, the total system capacity should reach about 84 000 MW. A 500-kV transmission system and 600-MW turbine generators are to be put into operation in the near future. An MHD plant of 1-MW capacity is to be completed in the 1970s. Automation of dispatching systems and computer application are rapidly increasing. Economic load dispatching, system protection, teletransmission, supervisory control, fault location, and high-voltage insulation design are areas of considerable interest and activity in Japan today.