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MOST HOUSEHOLDS UNAFFECTED: Private users that consume less than 700kWh and small businesses would be exempted from rate increases amid higher fuel costsBy Crystal Hsu / Staff reporter
10-YEAR PROJECT: The state utility aims to enhance power grid resilience by deploying microgrids, instead of major grids, to better control and reduce major power blackoutsBy Lisa Wang / Staff reporter
Taipei, Sept. 15 (CNA) The Taiwan Power Company proposed a ten-year NT$188.4 billion (US$6.05 billion) project on Thursday to enhance the resilience of the national grid, after a nationwide power outage in March exposed the fragility of the "overly centralized" delivery network, officials said that day.
Taiwan’s national power provider announced a plan to construct new electric vehicle charging stations throughout the country on Friday. Taiwan’s deman...
BETTER SYSTEM: Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua was tasked with helping Taipower prepare a plan to enhance the resilience of the utility’s power gridBy Lisa Wang / Staff reporter
Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) yesterday approved the resignations of Taiwan Power Co (Taipower, 台電) chairman Yang Wei-fu (楊偉甫) and president Chung Bin-li (鍾炳利) in the wake of nationwide blackouts that affected more than 5 million households and businesses on Thursday. Human error was the cause of a malfunction at Hsinta Power Plant (興達電廠) in Kaohsiung, the Executive Yuan said. Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs Tseng Wen-sheng (曾文生) was appointed interim chairman of the state-run utility, Executive Yuan spokesman Lo Ping-cheng (羅秉成) told reporters. Taipower vice president Wang Yao-ting (王耀庭) would succeed Chung as president of Taipower, Lo added. Yang and Chung offered their resignations