Taipei, March 7 (CNA) Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua (王美花) has been asked to stay on to supervise the implementation of plans to strengthen Taiwan's power grid, after asking the premier to discipline her for a massive power outage last week, a Cabinet spokesman said Monday.
Human error responsible for power outages across Taiwan: minister
05/14/2021 08:30 PM
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Taipower spokesman Chang Ting-shu (張廷抒, left) explains how Thursday s power trip was caused during a press conference organized by the Ministry of Economic Affairs. CNA photo May 14, 2021
Taipei, May 14 (CNA) Human error has been identified as the cause of power cuts across Taiwan on Thursday, Economics Minister Wang Mei-hua (王美花) said Friday, citing an initial report on the massive blackout that affected more than 4 million households.
Wang said a worker at state-run Taiwan Power Co. (Taipower) mistakenly pressed an isolator switch during tests for a transmission wire capacity expansion project at a transformer station in Hsinta Power Plant in Kaohsiung on Thursday.