More than 6 million Taiwanese households affected by power outage

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The govt says its grid doesn't have sufficient electricity capacity after the Kaohsiung power plant outage. FMTNews

TAIPEI: Tech powerhouse Taiwan started phased blackouts islandwide on Thursday after an outage at a coal- and gas-fired power plant hit 6 million homes, as the government worked to resume normal supply by evening.

In a text message, the government said its grid did not have sufficient electricity capacity after the outage at the power plant in the southern port city of Kaohsiung. All units of the Hsinta power plant in Kaohsiung were shut after an “incident”, Lo added, without giving details or identifying the cause of the outage.

 

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