Japanese utility Kyushu Electric’s late summer LNG demand is expected to be lower than last year after a court on Wednesday rejected a lawsuit attempting to stop the company from restarting its Sendai nuclear reactors, market sources said. The ruling paves the way for Kyushu Electric to restart its two 890-MW reactors at its Sendai nuclear power plant in Kagoshima prefecture by this summer. Platts research unit Eclipse Energy expects the restart to replace around 2 GW of capacity currently met by Kyushu Electric’s oil-fired power plants but will have no impact on the company’s gas-fired plants. However, market sources said that having nuclear as baseload power would give Kyushu Electric more room to cut down on LNG purchases. Article continues below… Oilgram News brings you fast-breaking global petroleum and gas news on and including: Industry players, upstream and downstream markets, refineries, midstream transportation and financial reports Supply and […]