Journalists sit in near darkness amid a power cut at a news conference at the Central Epidemic Command Center in Taipei yesterday. Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua, center, Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs Tseng Wen-sheng, second left, and Taiwan Power Co officials bow at a news conference in Taipei yesterday. Taiwan Power Co’s Singda Power Plant is pictured in Kaohsiung’s Yongan District in an undated photograph. Idle power generators, including nuclear facilities, were brought online in an attempt to fill the gap left by the Singda outages, Chang said. Some of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s (TSMC, 台積電) facilities reported brief power dips yesterday, but the power supply is currently normal, the company said in a statement.

Source: Taipei Times May 13, 2021 15:56 UTC