By Reuters Staff
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TOKYO, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Trading of a Japanese power market derivative offered by the European Energy Exchange (EEX) has surged in the six months since its launch, as overseas traders and investors pile into the world’s fourth-biggest electricity market.
The surge highlights growing overseas interest in the once-closed sector after reforms prompted by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster gradually opened it up.
Here is a timeline of changes: 1886 The sector’s origins date from the formation of private firm Tokyo Electric Light Co. in the late 1800s, followed by others in the wake of the late 1860s Meiji restoration.