Planned Blackout Schedule:

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A big earthquake occurred in the northern part of Japan at 2:46PM of March 11th 2011. Because TEPCO’s facilities have been seriously damaged, power shortage is expected. TEPCO announced on March 13th that the rolling blackouts is necessary to restore the electric power for Kanto and Tohoku area.

TEPCO = Tokyo Electric Power Company / Tokyo Denryoku

Last Update: March 14 21:33

Please check which “Group“ your area belongs to by looking for your address in the following PDF file.

*Your address may belongs to 2 groups. It is better to prepare for both groups.

**Original data we used is released by TEPCO on March 13th 21:00.

Tokyo
Saitama
Chiba
Kanagawa
Tochigi
Ibaraki
Gunma
Yamanashi
Shizuoka

The planned blackout schedule for Tuesday, March 15th.

Group 1: (15:20-19:00)
Group 2: (18:20-22:00)
Group 3: (6:20-10:00)
Group 4: (9:20-13:00)
Group 5: (12:20-16:00)

*About 3 hours of blackout may occur during the period above.

*Start and End time may be outside of the schedule above.

*Unexpected blackouts may occur outside of the schedule above.

*If you can’t find your address here, your area may be exempt from this rolling blackouts, or waiting to be added.

*TEPCO is keep updating the information, so it is always better to check with their latest information from their website. (only in Japanese now)

TEPCO official website (Japanese)
http://www.tepco.co.jp/index-j.html

*We try to update with the latest annoucement, but please refer to the TEPCO web-site for the accurate and latest information.

*This translation is provided by volunteers. Please refer to the TEPCO web-site for the accurate and latest information.