What to Expect from Japan's Nuclear Fleet and 2011 in Context

What to Expect from Japan's Nuclear Fleet and 2011 in Context

A late Happy New Years to all our readers! And the new year, of course, means we have new exciting full sets of data for 2011!

The EIA hosts a useful online data browser for international energy statistics. However, if one was interested in the nuclear electric generation in Japan, for instance, they would find the data only goes through the year 2009. Although that is still decent, it certainly won't give up-to-date information about how the 3/11/2011 earthquake-tsunami event off Japan's Tohoku coast affected the energy market. For that, I have turned to statistics from the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan (FEPC). It was just last week, 1/17, that they released the data for December 2011, wrapping up the year. As pdf files, it wasn't the most convenient format to work with, but it's the only place I know to find this. I couldn't resist plotting this data to compare what the nuclear generation in 2011 versus 2010 (as a reference) was. Here is what I found:

http://neutroneconomy.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-to-expect-from-japans-nuclear.html