Ah, so it may go out again?
Banqiao, or my part of it, lost power at around 7:03 p.m., (according to the stopped punch clock in my workplace). They let us go around, I guess, 7:40 p.m. or so, and power was restored around 7:55 p.m. So far.
So is this what they call a rolling blackout?
Holy smokes!
The minister of commerce or something just resigned, taking responsibility for it.
Power is still going on and off all over. Taipower said this will happen through the evening.
I don’t think so, you’ll have to excuse my sloppy writing as I’m pretty wiped today. By “on and off,” I meant that it was allegedly off when I began my afternoon cycling exercise, and then I watched the power cut out throughout the city on my return several hours later. The “allegedly” part was just what my wife said over the phone when I left. She just called and apparently it’s off again at her work, but I’m fine at home.
So, perhaps? I wasn’t keeping track of and timelines, but, it’s worth mentioning that cell reception completely cut out on that second time the electricity went out.
Looks like I was wrong, there you go.
Can I blame China?
Power has been out in downtown Taoyuan (Arts Center) since 5:00pm. Our evening classes were canceled, a couple of folks were stuck in our building’s elevator for 30 minutes. Rush hour traffic without street lights was horrible. I’m sitting outside my apartment building, too hot indoors and I can’t use my smartphone in my place without wifi. Neighborhood kids, as always, are taking everything in stride and running around playing with flashlights.
If the power doesn’t come back soon I’m going to “rescue” that pint of Ben & Jerry’s I have in the freezer.
Rescue away! I’m doing that just now. Best when it just starts to soften and melt. Delicious! See, blackouts can be fun! Cool that kids are having fun getting away from electronic screens and going outside. Flashlight tag!
Minister of Economic Affairs
Warning
Still doing repairs so taking turns turning power iff in certain areas.
All hospitals have power
Alert from 8 to 9 in Xindian Sanchong Tamsui Sanzhi Xizhi among others
(!)新北市停電快訊
(shiny)根據臺電資料，新北市20:00-20:50以下各區進行第三輪分區停電：汐止、瑞芳、金山、石門、萬里、雙溪、貢寮、三重、泰山、蘆洲、五股、新店、深坑、坪林、淡水、三芝停電！
(shiny)請大家盡量不要乘坐電梯，另外因電子波動而易損壞之電器，也請預先關閉電源。
(hospital)更新：醫院已全數復電。
No problem! Glad to have the information.
My Internet went out right before my area’s power loss, and some of the ladies at work were trying to access it via their smartphones, with no dice. But on the way home, I saw people using their smartphones in the park. Misterioso.
Demand has been increasing year by year unlike many other developed countries, this is almost all from increase in industrial energy use.
Not that you will read about it TSMC alone uses something like 4% if Taiwans electricity and it may go to 6% in a few years.
I was trapped in an elevator here…when I couldn’t speak Chinese. An experience.
I find more terrifying that a group of window washers got trapped at 9th floor height because of the power outage. That is a definite nope nope.
I am pretty sure that locking a escape route is illegal. And stupid. But mostly illegal. Especially with all the fires /quakes here.
Update is more than a 100 rescues in elevators. That is 100 elevators broken, not just 100 people. It was the end of the workday. Imagine a full elevator stopping in this heat…
Didn’t they also take a nuclear plant offline recently? Or, at least scrap the plans for one. Something about some coal v nuclear plant in Taichung.
You should go get on that hydrant, bru…
They were explaining this whole thing was started by China Petroleum but for the life of me I don’t get it.
Someone disconnected something and it just set of a cascade failure.
Gas and electricity is subsidized ridiculously in Taiwan. So these companies are subsidized by the taxpayer, and then their bosses to onto complain about how lazy Taiwanese people are and refusing to give decent salaries/lobbying to cut national holidays.
Socialism for the rich
Something similar happened in the US about 15 years ago, or so. Someone hit the wrong switch and knocked out the power for a huge swath of the NE, including NYC for a few days. The switch was like 1000 miles away. On the plus side, a lot of babies were born 9 months later!
Yeah it’s so pathetic.
Maybe this will improve the fertility rates with more babies being born in 9 months.
Updated outage possible until 9:40pm
So they are saying the whole blackout was caused by some kind of ‘fat-finger’ type human error?
That seems pretty incredible
I’d assumed it was because of the heat