Tokyo Faces Tight Power Supply on Scorching Heat, Plant Outages.

Tokyo is facing a tight power supply due to hotter-than-normal summer temperatures and plant outages. The city's utility is urging consumers to use electricity efficiently as the day-ahead spot price for the Tokyo region spiked to its highest level since February 2023. Unplanned maintenance has also reduced available power generation across Japan. The Tokyo area's power reserves could fall as low as 2% on Monday, prompting the Organization for Cross-regional Coordination of Transmission Operators to order a neighboring utility to share 200 megawatts of capacity. [Extracted from the article]