Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/05/23
By: Liao Yu-yang and Flor Wang
Taipei, May 23 (CNA) The number one generator at the coal-fired Ho Ping Power plant in
CNA file photo
Hualien County broke down on Wednesday, triggering an orange alert for the national operating power reserve margin, according to Taiwan Power Company (Taipower).
The problem occurred at around 8:00 a.m. and the generator was eventually taken out of the power supply system at 10:53 a.m. to facilitate repairs on its boiler, Cheng Shou-fu (鄭壽福), superintendent of Taipower’s central coordination, told CNA.
With the failure of the 648,000 kilowatts generator in Hualien, the national operating reserve margin fell to 4.08 percent, triggering an “orange alert” for the third time in May, Cheng said.
According to Taipower statistics, power consumption hit 34.633 million kilowatts at 11:40 a.m. Wednesday, 0.397 million kilowatts higher than at the same time the previous day. The highest consumption so far this year was 35.061 million kilowatts recorded on May 18.
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