Taoyuan loses power again, Taipower urges against ‘conspiracy theories’

Taoyuan loses power again, Taipower urges against ‘conspiracy theories’

2024-05-06

Power outages have hit Taoyuan 20 times over the past two weeks. The latest blackout struck Sunday night, affecting thousands in Bade, Daxi, and Pingzhen districts. A Taoyuan City councilor took to Facebook to complain, speculating that Taoyuan was being deliberately targeted. Taipower has come forward to explain.

Once again, the streetlights are out in Taoyuan. Hot pot restaurants and coffee shops were forced to close Sunday evening in Bade, Daxi and Pingzhen, as 3,205 electricity customers were left in the dark. The blackout lasted from 8:55 to 9:50 p.m.

Shop owner
It lasted about half an hour. We packed diners’ food to take home.

This blackout was caused by a malfunction in an elbow cable connector, not by a power shortage. But the outage was one of many: Taoyuan has lost power 20 times in the past half month. Among Taoyuan’s 13 districts, only Luzhu and Guanyin have been spared. KMT city councilor Ling Tao took to social media to complain, asking why rampant outages were exclusive to Taoyuan and Linkou. He speculated that Taoyuan was being targeted intentionally, or that it had been neglected during power grid updates. He questioned why Taoyuan was experiencing so many outages, when it hosted major power infrastructure like the Shihmen Reservoir and Datan Power Plant.

Chen Hung-yin
Taipower
The power outages aren’t intentionally targeting Taoyuan. We have a lot of large industrial users that consume a lot of electricity, so that means there are a lot of feeder lines. The seasonal changes since April mean that we’ve been entering a risky period of maintenance challenges. So it could seem as if there are slightly more frequent service interruptions in Taoyuan.

According to Taipower data, equipment malfunctions caused nine of Taoyuan’s recent blackouts. The remainder were caused by snakes, ants, birds, or trees that fell on or touched power infrastructure. Every day, more than 2,400 Taipower employees are on duty round the clock to fix issues. The company has also allotted a budget to strengthen the power lines in Taoyuan and trim back nearby tree branches. The company called on politicians not to start conspiracy theories or to ignore the hard work of Taipower staff.

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桃園半個月停電20次! 台電澄清:設備故障或外力導致並非缺電

2024-05-06

桃園短短半個月以來，已經發生了20次停電事故，尤其昨天晚上，又有八德、大溪、平鎮區無預警停電，桃園市議員就質疑，近期停電高度集中在桃園和林口，是不是有什麼隱情？對此台電澄清，主要都是設備故障或是外力導致停電，並不是缺電。

街上一片黑漆漆，桃園人熟悉的感覺又來了，火鍋店和咖啡店通通被迫關店，桃園市八德區、大溪區和平鎮區，總共3205戶停電，一直從晚上8點55分停到9點50分。

[[店家]]
“停電差不多半小時，需要幫忙打包(外帶)”

儘管這次的停電原因，是電纜肘型端頭故障，沒有缺電問題，但桃園這半個月以來，已經發生20次停電事故，全桃園13區，只剩蘆竹和觀音逃過一劫，也讓國民黨桃園市議員凌濤，發文痛批，停電高度集中桃園、林口，是不是有什麼隱情？質疑不是故意選桃園，就是電網更新，跳過桃園，感嘆石門水庫和大潭電廠，發電都在桃園，還狂停電，市民情何以堪。

[[台電桃園區處副處長陳虹吟]]
“事故停電不會專挑桃園，我們的工業用電戶數多，我們的用電量大，所以我們的饋線數也大。四月份開始就是屬於季節性變化，就進入到屬於我們在維護的，比較一個險峻的月份，所以凸顯出這個桃園會覺得這個事故的停電，稍微多了一點”

台電秀出資料，除了設備故障有9件，另外也有蛇害、蟻害及鳥類和樹竹倒塌或碰觸，造成停電事故。全台每天超過2400台電員工24小時輪值、隨時待命搶修，也已經編列預算，將對桃園進行，線路強化和樹修，希望政治口水，不能淹沒汗水，政治陰謀論，適可而止。

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