What's our concern now is how to reduce electric power usage in the summer

Now our hottest topic is how we can reduce the electricity consumption in summer. When you walk in Tokyo, you'll realise many escalators out there are stopped, such as in train station, office buildings.

That's all because we need to reduce the electricity consumption to avoid the unexpected power outage.

Auto makers expressed that they will close the factories on weekdays and operates on Saturdays and Sundays. But this kind of attempts are not only for the auto maker industries, but usual business offices are planning to change each office hours from 9:00-17:00 to 8:00-16:00.

Those decisions are up to each company's decisions, but I know that many companies will do these things, because it is expected to reduce 15% of the power consumption against previous year.

So, I am wondering why Japanese Gov. is not officially introduce summer time.

By the way, many portal sites, such as Yahoo, Nikkei News Corp, is showing their forecast of the current and future power consumption on their top page (see below), so everyone can know how much power is used at the moment.  You will be able to see this at http://www.yahoo.co.jp/