Japan electricity demand down 0.3% in September

Japan marked the first year-on-year decline in two months after power demand fell 0.3 percent in September from a year earlier.

This is a consequnce of a major push to reduce energy consumption following the March 2011 radiation crisis at Tokyo Electric Power's Fukushima Daiichi plant.

Only two of the nation's 50 nuclear reactors generated electricity last month, leaving a larger burden on fossil fuel-fired plants to offset the decline.

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