Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) yesterday urged President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) to convene a national affairs conference to discuss a responsible and viable electricity policy. Widespread power outages on Thursday affected more than 5.49 million households and businesses nationwide. The Ministry of Economic Affairs that evening said that an initial investigation by Taiwan Power (Taipower) showed that human error at Kaohsiung’s Hsinta Power Plant (興達電廠) led to the blackouts. Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua (王美花) on Friday said during a Legislative Yuan question-and-answer session that an outage would not occur again within the next year. Chu said that Wang’s assurances