The China Post
Date: April 11, 2017, 12:27 am TWN
By: The China Post news staff

Taiwan’s electricity operating reserve rate hit the year’s low of 3.56 percent on Monday

A man uses a handkerchief to wipe sweat from his forehead as he walks on a street in downtown Taipei, where the temperatures reached the highest recorded in Taiwan this year at 35.4 degrees Celsius. (CNA)

afternoon, as record temperatures seen in many parts of the island pushed up overall power consumption to a record level for the year, according to state-run Taiwan Power Company (Taipower).

A Taipower official in charge of power management said that power load capacity peaked at 30.236 million kilowatts/hour at 3:50pm, translating into the lowest operating reserve rate seen so far this year and indicating the increasing possibility of power rationing.

The official said that the island’s total power consumption broke the 30 million kw/hr mark for the first time this year 11 days earlier than seen on April 21 last year, when the corresponding figure hit 30.333 million kw/hr.    [FULL  STORY]