A tripped generator at Taichung Power Plant's Unit 7 took out 500,000 kilowatts (kW) of Taiwan's power supply and slashed the operating reserve from 5 percent to 2.89 percent. The breakdown puts the operating reserve margin within 100,000 kW of triggering Taipower's red alert, which indicates an impending emergency that would call for blackouts. To achieve a "nuclear-free homeland," the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration said it plans to decommission all of Taiwan's nuclear power plants by 2025. KMT Deputy Secretary-General William Tseng (曾銘宗) said Friday that to hit this target, renewable energy needed to account for 20 percent of Taiwan's power capacity by 2025. DPP Secretary-General Lee Chun-yi (李俊俋) replied later Friday that it was going too far to look at the power crisis and call for restarting the decommissioned nuclear power plants.

Source: The China Post August 04, 2017 06:33 UTC