Taiwan power outages

1 day agoTaiwan reported a massive blackout on Thursday that is affecting its two biggest cities as well as its most important iPhone processor production hub reported Nikkei Asia. The power plant reportedly provides around a seventh of Taiwans power.

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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.

. 1 day agoTaiwan chip maker TSMC said on Thursday a number of its plants in Taiwan experienced short power dips after large parts of the island were hit by power cuts and it was checking if there was. The outage affected some five million households in Taiwan she said. Outages were reported well beyond Kaohsiung - Taiwans second-largest city - across the islands southern region as well as far in the north in the capital of Taipei.

On Thursday and impacted the areas of Taipei New Taipei Hsinchu Taichung Tainan Kaohsiung Changhua Keelung Taoyuan. State-run power operator Taipower said there had been an incident with a transformer at the Xingda power plant in the southern. 1 day agoTaiwan Power and Taiwan officials did not say whether the outage had been the result of a cyber attack.

1 day agoTaiwan last had a major power outage in 2021 also due to issues at the coal-fired and natural gas-fired Hsinta Power Plant. The blackouts began at approximately 9 am. The outage affected some five million households in Taiwan she said.

15 hours agoTaiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Friday vowed to scrutinize power infrastructure and accelerate ongoing efforts to improve grid reliability. China is known to have cyberattack capabilities. Government officials estimate about 5 million households are affected by the power outages including in Taipei the capital and Kaohsiung the second-biggest city.

With that two of its biggest cities TMSCs iPhone processor production hub and over five million households were affected by this issue. That time TSMC was slightly impacted by the outage - but had been worse hit by a localized power outage the month before when a power cable was accidentally cut. Widespread power outages were reported across Taiwan on Thursday morning leaving millions in the dark after an alleged accident at a power plant in the southern part of the country.

Confirmed that the blackout was caused by equipment failure at the islands second largest coal-fired power plant located in the port city of Kaohsiung. Taiwan Power Co. 1 day agoTaiwan was hit by widespread power outages this Thursday.

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