Taiwan’s Power Grid On Red Alert As Heatwave Drives Peak Demand

Temperatures rose to a record-high for the year in Taiwan on
Monday, driving electricity consumption to a peak and leaving the
reserve capacity of Taiwan’s power grid to a level that prompted a
red alert, according to state-run Taiwan Power Company (Taipower).
The reserve capacity dropped to 648,000 kilowatts (kW) on Monday
afternoon in Taiwan, which is just 148,000 kW – or the power used
by some 5,000 central air-conditioning units in a day – above the
500,000-kW threshold that triggers a black alert, which usually
entails power…

Temperatures rose to a record-high for the year in Taiwan on
Monday, driving electricity consumption to a peak and leaving the
reserve capacity of Taiwan’s power grid to a level that prompted a
red alert, according to state-run Taiwan Power Company (Taipower).
The reserve capacity dropped to 648,000 kilowatts (kW) on Monday
afternoon in Taiwan, which is just 148,000 kW – or the power used
by some 5,000 central air-conditioning units in a day – above the
500,000-kW threshold that triggers a black alert, which usually
entails power…