The East Japan Railway Company has recently informed that they will be experimenting with piezoelectric elements, which generate power when mechanical stress is applied to them, on the floors of their Tokyo station. They are set to start testing on December 10th and will continue testing through February of 2009. They will be installing a power generating floor that will cover an are of 25m squared and will be installed at 7 ticket gates as well as 7 staircase steps. The East Japan Railway Company expects the floor to produce 1,400 kW/sec each day which will be used to power ticket gates and electronic display systems throughout the metro.