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Minister Resigns, President Apologises Forfew Hours Nationwide Power Outage by emamos: 1:32pm On Aug 16, 2017
President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan on Wednesday apologised for a nationwide power outage that affected millions of households aday earlier and vowed toreview the island’s power grid in order to secure the system’s stability.“I, on behalf of the administration, deeply apologise for the inconvenience and worry caused. It should have not happened,” Tsai said at a meeting ofher ruling Democratic Progressive Party’s Central Standing Committee in Taipei.Massive blackouts that lasted several hours on Tuesday were caused bya malfunction at the Tatan Power Plant, in Taoyuan county, the largest natural gas facility in Taiwan.The malfunction, causedby human error, affectedthe supply of 4.65 million kilowatts of electricity and approximately 6.68 million households in 17cities and counties on the main island of Taiwan.Tsai called for a comprehensive review of the country’s “fragile power supply systems.’’The outage led to the resignation of Economics Affairs Minister, Lee Chih-kung, on Tuesday.Premier Lin Chuan on Wednesday also ordereda probe to identify management problems in the state-run Taiwan Power Company and CPC Corporation Taiwan,a state-owned petroleum, natural gas, and gasoline company.CPC Taiwan Chairman, Chen Chin-te said at a news conference on Wednesday that the human error was caused by a contractor’sfailure to follow standard operating procedures.Lin said the Taiwanese government would inviteforeign specialists to help improve network stability and promote decentralised electricity generation.
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Re: Minister Resigns, President Apologises Forfew Hours Nationwide Power Outage by emamos: 1:33pm On Aug 16, 2017
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Re: Minister Resigns, President Apologises Forfew Hours Nationwide Power Outage by joinnow: 2:31pm On Aug 16, 2017
Lin said the Taiwanese government would inviteforeign specialists to help improve network stability and promote decentralised electricity generation.
Even Ghana uses foreign specialist reason they are light 247 in Ghana.
When is Nigeria inviting foreign specialist grin

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