It has been just over a year since massive blackouts hit Taiwan. Soon after yet another blackout on March 3, the Ministry of Economic Affairs put forward a NT$100 billion (US$3.39 billion) budget to improve the power grid, including direct supply of regional power to science parks, accelerating renewable energy grid integration, consolidating the grid, grouping junction substations, resolving power supply bottlenecks and building indoor substations.
Many of them are projects that have been ongoing for some time. The government has made promises as it does every time a major power outage happens that it will invest billions to
Following an investigation by the independent Taiwan Transportation Safety Board into two major train derailments, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications has required that all Taiwan Railways Administration projects comply with standard operating procedures.
Massive power outages on May 13 and Aug. 15, 2017, were also caused by staff not following established procedures.
The routine for handovers between local units, construction test units and contractors on the project to upgrade the capacity of the substation involved in the May 13 power outage was useless. Several controls and fool-proofing operations failed simultaneously, the power station’s auxiliary unit could not handle the voltage dips