The Ministry of Economic Affairs punished 25 executives at state-run utility Taiwan Power Co (Taipower, 台電) over power outages and emergency shutdowns earlier this year, it said on Friday.
The executives, including Taipower chairman Yang Wei-fu (楊偉甫) and president Chung Bin-li (鍾炳利), were given punishments ranging from warnings to major demerits for the outages on May 13, May 17 and July 27, Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua (王美花) said.
Attributing the incidents to human error or bad execution, Wang said that they not only affected people’s day-to-day lives, but also dealt a severe blow to public confidence in the national power