Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen vowed to scrutinize power infrastructure and accelerate efforts to improve grid reliability after a mass outage left one-third of the island without electricity. The government blamed negligence during annual maintenance at a major power plant for the outage across the island on Thursday. More than 5 million households were affected, though the crucial semiconductor sector was largely unaffected.
Tsai: “The national security team has been conducting examinations on the resilience of key infrastructure, and yesterday’s incident is one of the cases that needed to be scrutinized closely”.
Tsai said supply was sufficient at the time, but “operational negligence” was to blame for the blackout that affected thousands of households.
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