Kansai Electric Power Company, Incorporated (The) was established in 1951 as a result of a nationwide reorganization of the electric power industry and is now one of the nine major investor-owned electric utility companies in Japan. The service area of the company is located in the Kansai area, the central part of the main island covering about 8% of the nation's total land area with a population of about 20 million people and some major cities such as Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and Nara, where the company supplies electricity to 11.11 million households and 1.4 million commercial and industrial customers. Electric power business accounted for 97% of fiscal 2000 revenues and other businesses, 3%. The company has nine Japan-based consolidated subsidiaries. 

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