Taiwan: Massive power outage affects five million households
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The capital Taipei is among the areas affected by the blackout
Major cities across Taiwan including the capital Taipei have seen widespread power failures after a reported accident at a power plant.
The nation's economic affairs minister, Wang Meihua, said an accident had occurred at a power plant in southern Taiwan, according to a report by state-linked Central News Agency.
The ministry would deal with the matter "urgently", she added.
The outage affected some five million households in Taiwan, she said.
State-run power operator Taipower said there had been an incident with a transformer at the Xingda power plant in the southern city of Kaohsiung, and that they were activating backup sources of power.
The power plant reportedly provides around a seventh of Taiwan's power.
Taiwan-based TSMC, the world's largest contract chip maker, said a number of its plants had experienced short "power dips". It added that it was checking if there was any "actual impact", said a Reuters report.
At a press conference on Thursday, Ms Wang apologised for the outage, adding that the northern parts of the island would have their power back by noon and that power would start being restored in the southern parts from midday.
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen was set to meet the US ex-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. She said in a Facebook post that a scheduled livestream of her chat with Mr Pompeo had to be temporarily cancelled as a result.
Local media outlet Taiwan News had earlier on Thursday reported chaotic scenes at road junctions as traffic lights failed to function.
Traffic police had been dispatched to direct vehicles and fire trucks deployed across cities to deal with emergencies such as rescuing people trapped in lifts, the news outlet reported.
The island does occasionally experience large power outages. In 2017, a massive blackout hit half of Taiwan, affecting 6.68 million households.
The capital Taipei is among the areas affected by the blackout
Major cities across Taiwan including the capital Taipei have seen widespread power failures after a reported accident at a power plant.
The nation's economic affairs minister, Wang Meihua, said an accident had occurred at a power plant in southern Taiwan, according to a report by state-linked Central News Agency.
The ministry would deal with the matter "urgently", she added.
The outage affected some five million households in Taiwan, she said.
State-run power operator Taipower said there had been an incident with a transformer at the Xingda power plant in the southern city of Kaohsiung, and that they were activating backup sources of power.
The power plant reportedly provides around a seventh of Taiwan's power.
Taiwan-based TSMC, the world's largest contract chip maker, said a number of its plants had experienced short "power dips". It added that it was checking if there was any "actual impact", said a Reuters report.
At a press conference on Thursday, Ms Wang apologised for the outage, adding that the northern parts of the island would have their power back by noon and that power would start being restored in the southern parts from midday.
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen was set to meet the US ex-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. She said in a Facebook post that a scheduled livestream of her chat with Mr Pompeo had to be temporarily cancelled as a result.
Local media outlet Taiwan News had earlier on Thursday reported chaotic scenes at road junctions as traffic lights failed to function.
Traffic police had been dispatched to direct vehicles and fire trucks deployed across cities to deal with emergencies such as rescuing people trapped in lifts, the news outlet reported.
The island does occasionally experience large power outages. In 2017, a massive blackout hit half of Taiwan, affecting 6.68 million households.
Last winter ther were massive rolling power outages in China, which PRC Lovers simply ignored, because it didn't match with their image of Super-Competent China.
ReplyDeleteWhat a blur cry baby, "massive rolling power outages in China"?
DeleteIt was not by accident but planned power restriction supply to the many low profit margin products manufacturers (resident home were not affected, you are right China is super-competent) who mostly export their goods especially to US, in reality became a form of subsidy in the low price goods because the producers were willing to make very thin margin.
Benefits of the action of power restriction :
1. Stop purchasing coal from Australia (to teach them a lesson)
2. Reduced wastage of power in the form of subsidy benefiting US
3. Conserve power and thus no heating difficulty to the residents throughout the winter
In the process enable China to force its industries players to transform into manufacturing other higher value chain products (low margin goods required volume, they have to change if cannot achieve volume) and eliminate those inefficient players, thus efficient utilisation of resources.
Wakakakakaka…
DeleteU r teaching a recalcitrant mfering dickhead who survive on its family heirloom built upon classic cheap labour exploitation mechanism.
The only upgrade it knows would be buying anmokausai automation & reducing labour count to keep producing thin margin products in volumic quantity to sustain the profit!
Let it be! For its own demise of ignorance.
Just remember u r here not to enlighten it but the other readers.