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[quote]The power outage took place at 4:52 p.m., hitting the greater Taipei area, Taichung and Tainan, as well as Miaoli, Nantou and Chiayi counties due to an operational error at the Tatan power plant in Taoyuan.
An operational error that saw the plant's gas supply cut for two minutes by state-owned CPC Corp. (中油), Taiwan caused all of the six generators in the plant in Taoyuan's Guanyin District to trip, cutting the country's power supply by 4.35 million kilowatts --the full capacity of the power plant, which is the largest natural gas-fired power plant in Taiwan.
The reduced voltage caused by the six offline generators also affected the operations of a generator at a power plant in Taichung, leaving a total shortfall of 4.65 million kW nationwide, Taipower said.
To take responsibility for the power disruption, Minister of Economic Affairs Lee Chih-kung (李世光) tendered his verbal resignation, which was accepted by Premier Lin Chuan (林全).
Lee will deliver his formal letter of resignation on Wednesday or Thursday, Cabinet spokesman Hsu Kuo-yung (徐國勇) told the press, saying that the government is determined to locate the cause of the human error and hold all relevant people accountable.
Due to the blackout, several department stores and shopping malls in Taipei, Taoyuan and Taichung, such as Pacific SOGO Department Store, Shin-Kong Mitsukoshi Department Store and Far Eastern Department Store had to evacuate their customers soon after outage occurred. The Taipei 101 building also stepped up evacuation measures when the outage took place.
Located in the Taipei 101 tower, the Taiwan Stock exchange said that its computer system remained intact, since the exchange is equipped with an uninterruptible power supply and a back-up power system.
The power outage did not affect the operations of the Hsinchu Science Park, where many of Taiwan's top high-tech manufacturers are located, the park administration said in a statement, denying news reports of power disruptions there.[/quote]
the whole country basically went out of power for hours
man for a sec i thought the chinese have finally begun their invasion
[quote]The country's unstable power supply has caused concerns about the high-tech sector's operations and even their future investment plans. The science park statement relieved many investors, as the industrial park houses many manufacturing giants, such as the world's largest contract chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (台積電).
Also unaffected by the outage, Taiwan's national defense system was running normally on the back of a back-up power system. Ministry of National Defense spokesman Maj. Gen. Chen Chung-chi (陳中吉) assured the public that the country's national defenses remained fully functional and able to deal with any and all adversaries[/quote]
source : [url]http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aeco/201708150034.aspx[/url]
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apparently some dude from the power company "accidentally" caused the whole thing
what a major fuck up
thanks to him all my ice creams in the fridge i bought yesterday has melted
well at least im not the amongst the hundreds of people stuck in elevators or the cable cars
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[QUOTE=Mr.Brown;52576348]thanks to him all my ice creams in the fridge i bought yesterday has melted
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I think your freezer might have a problem if it's leaking enough air out to let an already frozen inside warm up in less than 16 hours.
Ha, my mother's in Taiwan with family right now and I just saw her complaining about the power outage just making the 40°C even worse.
Jesus, imagine being trapped in an elevator with several people while it's humid and hot
I find the pictures of the blacked-out city really beautiful, in a way.
[QUOTE=ilikecorn;52576506]Should send them an invoice for lost goods.
Seriously though, how did this kind of incident occur? Are there not multiple safety systems in place so that one person couldn't fuck up this badly?[/QUOTE]
you'd be surprised
last time our navy accidentally blew up a fisherman's ship and the cause of it was 1 dude pressing the fucking launch button
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My renters insurance covers spoiled food lost in a power outage :v:
[QUOTE=ilikecorn;52576506]Should send them an invoice for lost goods.
Seriously though, how did this kind of incident occur? Are there not multiple safety systems in place so that one person couldn't fuck up this badly?[/QUOTE]
this is almost exactly how the US grid went down back in 2003, a perfect storm of tripped brakers and operators making the wrong call.
[editline]15th August 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=Karmah;52576502]Jesus, imagine being trapped in an elevator with several people while it's humid and hot[/QUOTE]
I can't imagine the elevator system wouldn't have backup power, if only to return the cars to the nearest floor and shut down
summary of the whole thing in 10 seconds :
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