Taiwan started a rotational electricity blackout across the island on Thursday after an outage at a coal-fired power plant in the south of the island, the government said.
The government said in a text alert it did not have enough electricity capacity in its grid after an outage at a power plant in the southern port city of Kaohsiung.
Several cities across the island have reported blackouts, the official Central News Agency reported.
“The government has a grasp of the situation. Citizens please remain calm and there’s no need for panic,” cabinet spokesman Lo Ping-cheng told reporters.
Lo said…
