Japanese utilities slash prices (riiiight, sure)

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Japanese utilities slash prices as firms pull plug
Asian Wall Street Journal via Korea Herald , Dec 2
TOKYO -Japan's automakers, retailers, and shopping-mall owners are spurning the country's power utilities and making their own electricity.
To combat this trend and fight off a dozen new entrants into Japan's power-supply sector, major utilities like Tokyo Electric Power Co. and Kansai Electric Power Co. have been cutting their prices...more...