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TEPCO Announces Equity Investment in Moixa Energy

Announcement posted by ACN Newswire 11 Apr 2017

TOKYO, Apr 7, 2017 - (JCN Newswire) - Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc., or TEPCO, has announced a £500,000 equity investment in Moixa Energy Holdings, the UK's leading residential battery and platform for managing storage services. (CEO: Simon Daniel, Headquarters: London).

"We are excited to welcome Moixa to our modest, but growing portfolio of innovative companies," said Hirokazu Yamaguchi, Executive General Manager, Global Innovation & Investments at TEPCO. "Moixa has developed a robust battery storage and smart energy-sharing platform. We look forward to gaining hands-on experience for the benefit of our customers."

David Thomlinson, Chairman of Moixa and former Global Head of Energy at Accenture, said, "Having previously worked with TEPCO, I am particularly pleased to be able to partner with this leading Japanese corporate to bring the Moixa technology to new markets."

The energy industry is undergoing a transformative change, empowered by new technologies and driven by consumers. Technologies such as distributed solar and batteries are enabling innovative new ways of producing, consuming and sharing energy. This in turn permits consumers to increasingly and proactively engage the energy industry as "prosumers", who both produce and consume energy.

Moixa offers a compact and affordable smart battery for residential customers that helps households to save money by storing spare solar or cheap tariff electricity. In addition, Moixa's innovative cloud-based GridShare platform helps manage and aggregate distributed storage resources, thereby delivering grid services and savings for the energy system.

About Moixa Energy

Moixa Energy Holdings Ltd., the UK's leading residential battery company, invents, manufactures and distributes smart energy technology, with over 10 years of research and development, strong international patents and multiple pilots. The Company has installed its Smart Batteries in more than 800 homes for a combined capacity of over 1.3MWh, with five million hours of use. For more information, visit http://www.moixa.com

About TEPCO

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. (TEPCO; TSE: 9501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is the largest utility in Japan, serving more than 29 million homes and businesses. Worldwide, the company has more than 74 subsidiaries and affiliates in 8 countries and employs approximately 43,330 people. The company was established in 1951 and is listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. For more information, visit http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/corpinfo/index-e.html