General Electric Co, which helped build the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant damaged by Japan's earthquake and tsunami, will help the plant's operator supply electricity in the coming summer when power demand soars.
GE chief executive Jeff Immelt, on a visit to Japan, met with officials at Tokyo Electric Power Co Ltd about the crippled Fukushima plant, site of the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
"Immelt said GE would cooperate with TEPCO on restarting and strengthening its thermal power generation in anticipation of the rise in power demand for the summer," a TEPCO official told a webcast news briefing.
"As one of the manufacturers (of the reactors), he wanted to say GE wants to provide ideas to help resolve the situation," said the official from Japan's biggest utility.
Power demand soars in Japan in summer due to heavy usage of air-conditioners in the heavily populated cities.
The government has said it will restrict maximum power usage by companies during the hotter months in an effort to try and avoid further blackouts, which have already impacted on production and supply chains in Japan and seen a drop in manufacturing output.
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