Last night, there was no warning of a power outage in Tainan, affecting more than 60,000 households, only 24 days after the last taiwan-wide power outage
Taiwan Zhongshi News Network, "ETtoday News Cloud" news, Tainan City Houjia substation equipment failure, resulting in Yongkang District, North District, East District, South District and other districts yesterday (9th) late at night power outage, affecting more than 60,000 households. The blackout was only 24 days after the May 17 outage in Taiwan, when millions of households were affected.
Screenshot of taiwan's Zhongshi News Network report
According to the report, many districts in Tainan City suddenly had a partial power outage or a regional power outage late last night, many residents were facing a power outage, many local people uploaded posts on Facebook, directly calling "Tainan power outage", and they all cried out on the Internet: "This time will also be blackout is too exaggerated", "At eight o'clock in the evening, it has been stopped once, and now it is stopped at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, what do you want to do", "Is Taipower recently a stroke, frequent conditions, electricity bills have risen", "Electricity is not coming again, I want to take out the steak in the refrigerator and fry it."
Taiwan Electric Power Company (hereinafter referred to as Taipower) confirmed that an equipment failure occurred at 11:59 p.m. on the 9th, causing more than 60,000 households in the Eastern District, Central and Western Districts and Yongkang District to lose power, and Taipower has urgently dispatched personnel to repair it. Tainan Mayor Huang Weizhe also wrote on Facebook calling on people not to take the elevator for the time being to avoid difficulties.
Tainan netizens took pictures of the appearance after the power outage near their homes, and asked in doubt, "Is it going to be the end of the world?" "Picture from Taiwan" ETtoday News Cloud
After the emergency repair of Taipower, Tainan and other areas have gradually restored power supply, and the power supply was restored at 00:44 a.m. on the 10th, with a total blackout time of 45 minutes.
Previously, Taiwan had two major power outages in just 5 days.
On May 13, an accident occurred at the Xingda Power Plant in Kaohsiung, shutting down the entire plant, causing a total of about 4 million households and 13.19 million households in all counties and cities in Taiwan to experience power outages. On May 17, the No. 1 unit of Xingda Power Plant was shut down due to the failure of the boiler combustion management system module, and millions of households in the whole unit were once again pulled out of the gate and power curtailed.
Under pressure, Tsai Ing-wen posted an urgent apology on Facebook on the evening of May 17: "I am very sorry for the temporary suspension of power supply in some areas tonight. It was difficult for everyone to accept two power outages in a short period of time, and even I had a hard time accepting it. According to the report of the China Times News Network at the time, a large number of netizens on the island poured into Tsai Ing-wen's Facebook to press the "angry" expression under her apology, and left a message mockingly: "It is recommended that Xiaoying's manuscript can be kept, and it can be used several times this year." "Is it hard to admit that electricity isn't enough?" "Don't talk anymore, okay?"
In a word, will Tsai Ing-wen come out and apologize this time?
Source: World Wide Web