Lai Qingde is about to take office, but he has to face the mess left by his predecessor Tsai Ing-wen. Among them, how to solve the "big hole" of power shortage has become an imminent problem.
According to Global Network, power outages have been frequent in Taoyuan City, Taiwan in the past six months, with a total of 171 power outages, an average of 0.94 times a day, and a total of 294,274 households affected, with an average of 1,721 households each time.
Especially in April this year, there were more power outages, reaching 35 times, with an average of 1.16 times per day, and the average number of affected households reached 2,297.
In other words, there are only 30 days in a month, and the number of power outages has reached 35 times. Such frequent power outages are bound to have a huge impact on production and life. It is no wonder that Taoyuan people are angry.
Faced with the dissatisfaction of the Taoyuan City Government and Taoyuan people, Taipower Station came out to explain that these power outages are isolated cases. April to September is the peak period of electricity consumption, and power outages are normal. Recently, there have been many power outages in Taoyuan, and external forces and natural disasters account for most of them. 70%, equipment factors only account for 30%, and the number of users who are actually affected by the fault and have power outages for a long time is very small.
Taipower also emphasized that Taoyuan City has 12,000 kilometers of distribution lines, 1,109 feeders, and 1.3 million users. It is the district with the most industrial users in Taiwan. Industrial electricity consumption is much higher than civilian electricity consumption. These feeders are densely distributed in the Taoyuan area, and the lines are prone to power outages caused by factors such as the external environment, contact with foreign objects, and poor equipment.
It sounds like Taipower's explanation is clear and logical, but upon closer analysis, this explanation is quite weak.
Taoyuan City Deputy Mayor Su Junbin retorted on the 6th that Taipower used individual cases to explain power outages every time. The reason was nothing more than accidents caused by trees, bamboo or foreign objects touching, but the frequency of power outages and the number of households affected by each power outage They are all increasing. In just five days in May, Taoyuan has already had 6 power outages, affecting tens of thousands of households. This cannot be explained by "one case".
Taoyuan has a large population and high power consumption pressure is not new, but a fact that has existed for a long time. Why can’t Taipower make plans in advance and prepare for rainy days? Just saying it lightly is not an isolated case and no one can be convinced.
In short, no matter how eloquent Taipower is, the main reason for frequent power outages is that it does not have a complete power grid and power consumption policy, and the related hardware cannot meet the power demand.
In fact, Taoyuan City, which suffers from frequent power outages, can be said to be a microcosm of the power shortage in Taiwan. The wrong energy policy adopted by Tsai Ing-wen after taking office not only defrauded the people on the island, but also defrauded Lai Qingde, who took on this big "hot hand" just after taking office. Yam”.
For the people on the island, whether Lai Qingde will accept all the energy policies during the Tsai Ing-wen period has become the focus of attention.
Tsai Ing-wen has promoted a number of aggressive energy policies, such as the super power-consuming "Desalination Plan". Perhaps this plan can improve the water shortage crisis on the island, but when the power is extremely unstable, electricity prices soar, and power outages are frequent, Implemented under certain circumstances, the gain outweighs the gain.
Although the people on the island are not very optimistic about Lai Qingde's ability to improve the power shortage situation, they still have some hope that he can alleviate the crisis of frequent power outages after taking office. Let's see how Lai Qingde will respond.
However, judging from the key industries that Lai Qingde’s team has recently highlighted, such as AI, high-end semiconductor processes, and medical system infrastructure, it can be seen that Lai Qingde may still follow Tsai Ing-wen’s old path.
Because they only mentioned the development of these industries, they did not have a complete and systematic plan on how to solve the problem of high power consumption in these industries. Overall, they are still just making some lip-service suggestions that are not practical.
As the saying goes, "the three things a new official should do when he takes office", perhaps after Lai Qingde takes office, he will make great efforts to solve the problem of power shortage, water shortage, egg shortage and other issues on the island, trying to gain more support from the people on the island.
However, it must be said that the power shortage crisis in Taiwan is rooted in the defects of the power grid system and the wrong energy policies of the Democratic Progressive Party authorities. If we cannot address the root cause of the problem, frequent power outages will become a common occurrence. becomes an unsolvable problem.
