Taiwan power outages

That time TSMC was slightly impacted by the outage - but had been worse hit by a localized power outage the month before when a power cable was accidentally cut. Confirmed that the blackout was caused by equipment failure at the islands second largest coal-fired power plant located in the port city of Kaohsiung.

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. TAIPEI March 3 Reuters - Taiwan chip maker TSMC said on Thursday a number of its plants in Taiwan experienced short power dips after large parts of the island were hit by power cuts and it. Traffic police had been dispatched to direct vehicles and fire trucks deployed across cities to deal with emergencies such as rescuing people. Taiwan is gradually restoring power supply the state-run power operator said on Thursday after much of the islands south and five million households were hit by an outage caused by a malfunction at a major power generation plant.

The blackouts occurred after 9 am. Taiwan Power Co. Taiwan Power and Taiwan officials did not say whether the outage had been the result of a cyber attack.

Taiwan was hit by widespread power outages this Thursday. Power failures were reported in many parts of Taiwan on Thursday following what the presidential office said was an incident at a power plant. Energy Taiwan hit by widespread power outages Two biggest cities and iPhone processor production hub affected Traffic lights stop functioning during a blackout in Kaohsiung Taiwan on March 3.

According to Taiwan Power Company Taipower the outages were caused by an equipment failure at the Hsinta Power Plant in Kaohsiung City which provides around a seventh of Taiwans power. Taiwan last had a major power outage in 2021 also due to issues at the coal-fired and natural gas-fired Hsinta Power Plant. With that two of its biggest cities TMSCs iPhone processor production hub and over five million households were affected by this issue.

Outages were reported well beyond Kaohsiung Taiwans second-largest city across the islands southern region as well as far in the north in the capital of Taipei.

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