A string of power outages affecting multiple parts of Taoyuan over the past few days was mainly caused by equipment malfunctions, the government and Taiwan Power Co (Taipower, 台電) officials said yesterday.
Speaking at the Cabinet’s weekly press briefing, Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs Chen Chern-chyi (陳正祺) said the outages were due to problems with power distribution, rather than power generation.
The latest cuts yesterday morning — the third consecutive day of outages in the city — were caused by problems with “aging underground transmission lines” and trees that had fallen due to heavy rains, Taipower vice president Tsai Chih-meng (蔡志孟) said.
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Taipower did not explain why the outages had all occurred in Taoyuan.
“There are more then 300,000km of power transmission lines in Taiwan, and sometimes there are problems with some of them,” Taipower president Wang Yao-ting (王耀庭) said when asked about the issue at a legislative hearing.
The string of power cuts in Taoyuan began on Tuesday, when 10,807 households in Dayuan (大園), Jhongli (中壢) and Cingpu (青埔) districts lost power.
On Wednesday night, 3,094 households in the city’s Pingjhen District (平鎮) lost electricity, followed by another 9,937 households in Longtan District (龍潭) and 17 households in Taoyuan District (桃園) yesterday morning.
The “vast majority” of the households that lost power yesterday got it back within five minutes, and as of yesterday afternoon, power had been restored to all households across Taoyuan, Taipower said.
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