Organization Information

Overview

Name of Organization:Organization for Cross-regional Coordination of Transmission Operators, JAPAN (OCCTO)

Date of Establishment:April 1, 2015

Address:6-2-15, Toyosu, Koto-ku, Tokyo, 135-0061, JAPAN (Location)

Board Members

President:Tsutomu Oyama

Executive Vice-president:Takaya Kishi

Executive Vice-president:Toshihiro Takano

Executive Vice-president:Yukihiko Tayama

Executive Vice-president:Norihisa Hijikata

Executive Vice-president:Toru Masutani

Auditor (Part-time):Harumi Kojo

Auditor (Part-time):Akira Chiba

Councilors

Chair of Councils

Kenji Yamaji: (President, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE))

Coucilors

Reiko Akiike: (Managing Director&Senior Partner, BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP)
Mami Ito: (President and CEO, NIHON DENTO KOUGYO Co., Ltd.)
Yasuhiko Ushikubo: (Managing Executive Officer, Head of Research & Consulting Unit / Chief Sustainability Officer (CSuO))
Hiroshi Esaki: (Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The Univetsity of Tokyo)
Koichi Kuranuki: (Senior Writer, THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN)
Mikiko Soga: (Partner, Nishimura&Aasahi (Gaikokuho Kyodo Jigyo))
Yukari Takamura: (Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo)
Masanori Takegawa: (Editorial Writer, The Mainichi Newspapers Co., Ltd)
Yuko Hara: (Director, Nippon Association of Consumer Specialists)
Masanori Maruo: (Managing Director, Global Investment Banking, SMBC NIKKO SECURITIES INC.)
Noriyuki Yanagawa: (Professor, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo)
Hirotaka Yamauchi: (Specially Appointed Professor, Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Business Administration, MUSASHINO UNIVERSITY),(Emeritus Professor, HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY)

Organization

General Meeting

Composed of all members*
Resolution of change of articles and operational rules, budgets and accounts, and assignment and dismissal of officers

*All the Electric Power Companies have obligation to be members of OCCTO.

Responsibilities of OCCTO members

Observance of Rules for Instructions and Requests from OCCTO
Payment of Membership Fee
Submission of Electricity Supply Plan
Emergency Disaster Preparedness

Auditor

Audit and advice to the Board of directors

Board of Directors

Daily management decisions
Assignment of employees, management and supervision to the Secretariat
Assignment of Councilors

Board of Councilors

Deliberation of critical issues by neutral members other than Electric Industry
Check and suggestion to the Board of Directors

Secretariat

General Affairs Dept.

Member liaison, formulation and review of rules for network use, operating Switching Support System, disaster prevention, information security measures

Public and International Relations Office: Reinforcing functions for collecting and transmitting information

General Planning Dept.

Study of ideal reserve and balancing capacity , undertaking a detailed design of,and operating the capacity market

Network Planning Dept.

Demand forecast, aggregation of electricity supply plans, and formulation of long-term development plan of cross-regional network and cross-regional network development plan

Acceptance of preliminary consultation and system impact study for power generation facility with over 10MW

Network Operation Department

Respond to power shortage, management of cross-regional interconnection lines,coordination of maintenance work plans, and operation of Cross-regional Operation System

Cross-regional Operation Center: Monitoring and managing of power supply-demand and system condition

Dispute Resolution Office

Respond to complaints and consultations, conciliation/arbitration

Audit Office

(Main operations are listed.)

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