Akira Tanaka (akira_bkk) Translations

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Original Text

電力や都市ガスは、1960年代後半から人口の都市集中や所得水準の上昇に伴う活発な住宅建設と耐久消費財の普及増の波に乗り需要を伸ばした。都市開発の進展とサービス業の発達は、オフィスビルの建設ラッシュを誘発してビルの空調需要を増大させた。第一次石油危機はコストに占める変動費構成の高い石油製品に対して、電力やガスに比較してより大きな影響を与えた。そしてそれらの間の価格差の縮小が電力・ガスの安定供給というPRポイントを際立たせ、都市のエネルギー消費において電力と都市ガスを有利にした。

Translation

Demand for electricity and city gas expanded by riding a wave of urban population concentration and booming housing construction with growing popularization of durable goods in late 1960’s. Advancement of urban development and growth of the service industry triggered a rush for office building construction, and it increased demand for air-conditioning in buildings. The First Oil Crisis made a bigger impact to petroleum products with their variable expenses composing a big portion in cost than to electricity and city gas. Then, decrease in price difference of those emphasized the stable electricity and city gas supply to be a sales point and gave electricity and city gas an edge on the urban energy consumption.

akira_bkk Japanese → English ★★★★★ 5.0
Original Text

戦前日本の郡部において電灯普及は急速に進展した。大規模発電所を中心とする都市型電力システムとは対照的に、多くの地域で、地元の水資源を活用した発電力100kw以下の小規模事業体による、いわば小規模分散型の電力システムが確立していた。ただし電気が普及していたとはいえ、その用途は照明に限定されていた。さらに需要家当たりの電灯数は2−4灯と、現在と比べると少なかった。この原因は当時電力使用量を基準とする従量料金が少なく、燭光数と取付数を基準とした定額料金が大勢を占めていたことにある。

Translation

Prior to the Second World War, there was a rapid progress on electric lighting in rural areas of Japan. In contrast to the urban electricity system which was centered around large-scaled electric power plants, so-called "small-scaled distributed electricity systems" by small-scaled operators with generating capacity under 100kw utilizing local water resources were established in many areas. However, even though electricity was prevalent, use of electricity was limited to lighting purposes. Moreover, the number of lighting lamps per customer household was 2 to 4, low compared to the present day. It was because metered rates based on electricity usage were rare at that time, and flat rates based on the number of lighting lamps and fixtures were much more common.