{"id":459,"date":"2014-11-17T04:27:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T04:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/?p=459"},"modified":"2015-03-11T06:12:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T06:12:32","slug":"tohoku-aims-to-ensure-power-availability-in-major-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/news\/459","title":{"rendered":"Tohoku Aims to Ensure Power Availability in Major Disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 31, Tohoku Electric Power Co. introduced an emergency low-voltage power-source vehicle \u2014 known as \u201cToMoS\u201d \u2014 for use in providing power in isolated areas and islands in times of major natural disasters.  The vehicle can be carried inside the heavy-lift helicopters (CH-47) operated by the Japan Ground Self Defense Force (JGSDF). <\/p>\n<p>Given the frequent impassability of roads in recent years owing to earthquakes, torrential rains, and ground subsidence \u2014 complicating overland transport of workers, materials and equipment \u2014 and because of the sometimes lengthy periods before electricity services have been restored, the power company had been working to develop a solution.<\/p>\n<p>ToMoS vehicles have already been stationed at the Nagaoka Service Office in Niigata Prefecture and the Sendai-Minami Service Office in Miyagi Prefecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 31, Tohoku Electric Power Co. introduced an emergency low-voltage power-source vehicle \u2014 known as \u201cToMoS\u201d \u2014 for use in providing power in isolated areas and islands in times of major natural disasters. The vehicle can be carried inside the heavy-lift helicopters (CH-47) operated by the Japan Ground Self Defense Force (JGSDF). Given the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,7],"tags":[158,159,157],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-npps","category-regulation-safety","tag-counter-measure","tag-disaster","tag-tohoku"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}