The outages affected 8.46 million customers, Taiwan Power Co said, adding that a short-term rolling blackout was initiated across the country as an emergency measure after four generators tripped at the Singda Power Plant in Kaohsiung. Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators Yang Chiung-ying, left, and Jennifer Chen, right, listen yesterday as KMT legislative caucus secretary-general Cheng Li-wun demands the resignation of Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua at a news conference at the legislature in Taipei. Thermal power, which reached 80.64 percent during Ma’s administration, increased to 82.24 percent last year, Huang said, adding that the numbers indicate the country is suffering from insufficient power generation. Citing a power outage on Aug. 15, 2017, Cheng Chao-hsin (鄭照新), another committee deputy director-general, said the Tsai administration at the time had also claimed that it was not a problem with power generation, but the distribution network. KMT Culture and Communications Committee director-general Alicia Wang (王育敏) said that someone in the Tsai administration should step down for the five-hour rolling blackout.

Source: Taipei Times May 14, 2021 15:56 UTC