Taiwan Powercut
- country Taiwan
- region East Asia
- categories Transformer(s) tripping
- impacts No content
- start 12 December 2021 at 01:12:00 Asia/Taipei
- end 12 December 2021 at 01:12:00 Asia/Taipei
- duration 12 minutes
- primary cause Transformer fires
- secondary causes No content
- load lost No content
- number of customers affected No content
- end of disturbance criteria 9
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The No. 5 transformer of Taipei’s Wanlong primary substation burst into flames on Dec. 12, causing power outages across Taipei and parts of New Taipei City.
At 9:42 a.m., substations in Wanlong, Qizhang, Dafeng, Muzha, Bojia, Shenkeng, Ankang, Coukeng, Guishan, and Wulai had all stopped functioning. The districts of Zhonghe, Yonghe, Banqiao, and Wenshan experienced power outages.
However, by 9:54 a.m., all substations except for the one in Wanlong were back in operation. Taipower indicated that the power outage had affected 305,418 households and that 33,509 households are still without power. The fire at the Wanlong substation has already been extinguished and no one was injured, it said. more details on this blackout is available at Fire at Taipei substation causes widespread power outages | Taiwan News | 2021-12-12 11:50:00
Rolling blackout initiated at 3pm local time and ended at 8pm local time on May 13, 2021.
More details are available at Human error responsible for power outages across Taiwan: minister - Focus Taiwan