Seeking to explore power as crucial factor in the design of the built environment, we will look at energy systems and related objects, from sites of generation to spaces of consumption, from distribution networks to control rooms.
Tutors: Filip Geerts and Sanne van den Breemer
Director of Studies: Salomon Frausto
Contributors: Santiago Ardila, Juan Benavides, Daniella Camarena, Stef Dingen, Marco Fusco, Jack Garay Arauzo, Theodora Gelali, Shaiwanti Gupta, Hao Hsu, Marianthi Papangelopoulou, Felipe Quintero, Gent Shehu, Siyuan Wang
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TEPCO
Institution, Light, Nuclear, Generation, Transmission, Distribution, National, Nuclear Disater, Tokyo, Commercial, Diagram
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Incorporated or TEPCO, is a Japanese electric utility holding company servicing Japan's Kantō region, Yamanashi Prefecture, and the eastern portion of Shizuoka Prefecture. This area includes Tokyo. Its headquarters are located in Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda, Tokyo, and international branch offices exist in Washington, D.C., and London. Although TEPCO is the main distributor of electricity in Tokyo, it owns plants of production outside of the region. The electricity and companies grid in Japan shows how the electricity is distributed across Japan. According to the company’s website, TEPCO Power Grid, which is engaged in power transmission and distribution, possesses extensive facilities, while their goal is to “become a company that is more sought after by customers and the general public than ever before”.1
TEPCO owned a few energy related museums, with the most famous, TEPCO Electric Energy Museum Denryokukan located in the center of Shibuya and the Electric Power Historical Museum in Yokohama. The Denryokukan Museum was designed as an interactive space, with displays explaining how a power plant works, in order to communicate their work as a company. Following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, one of its power plants was the site of one of the world's most serious continuing nuclear disaster, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. After the Fukushima disaster, the PR museums belonging to TEPCO closed, while the government nationalized TEPCO to financially deal with the cleanup. The follow-up museum to the one in Shibuya opened after the disaster, mainly as an information center. Due to the impact from the earthquake, only the PR facility in Niigata remains open while every other PR facility is not currently in operation.
1. ”Power Transmission and Distribution”,TEPCO Official Website, Accessed March 13, 2020. https://www7.tepco.co.jp/ourbusiness/supply/index-e.html
Institution, Light, Nuclear, Generation, Transmission, Distribution, National, Nuclear Disater, Tokyo, Commercial, Diagram
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Incorporated or TEPCO, is a Japanese electric utility holding company servicing Japan's Kantō region, Yamanashi Prefecture, and the eastern portion of Shizuoka Prefecture. This area includes Tokyo. Its headquarters are located in Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda, Tokyo, and international branch offices exist in Washington, D.C., and London. Although TEPCO is the main distributor of electricity in Tokyo, it owns plants of production outside of the region. The electricity and companies grid in Japan shows how the electricity is distributed across Japan. According to the company’s website, TEPCO Power Grid, which is engaged in power transmission and distribution, possesses extensive facilities, while their goal is to “become a company that is more sought after by customers and the general public than ever before”.1
TEPCO owned a few energy related museums, with the most famous, TEPCO Electric Energy Museum Denryokukan located in the center of Shibuya and the Electric Power Historical Museum in Yokohama. The Denryokukan Museum was designed as an interactive space, with displays explaining how a power plant works, in order to communicate their work as a company. Following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, one of its power plants was the site of one of the world's most serious continuing nuclear disaster, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. After the Fukushima disaster, the PR museums belonging to TEPCO closed, while the government nationalized TEPCO to financially deal with the cleanup. The follow-up museum to the one in Shibuya opened after the disaster, mainly as an information center. Due to the impact from the earthquake, only the PR facility in Niigata remains open while every other PR facility is not currently in operation.
1. ”Power Transmission and Distribution”,TEPCO Official Website, Accessed March 13, 2020. https://www7.tepco.co.jp/ourbusiness/supply/index-e.html