[Global Network Report] According to Taiwan's "United Daily News" on the 4th, there were major power outages in many places in Taiwan on the 3rd. A total of about 5.49 million households in Taiwan were without power. Taipower urgently repaired, but several processing export areas in southern Taiwan (abbreviated as: The processing area) had not recovered power until the afternoon of the same day, and industry sources said that the loss caused by the sudden power outage was a lot.
The supply chain of semiconductors, optoelectronics and Apple on the island has been hit, and the production equipment of wafer foundries and large panel factories has been affected due to the voltage drop.
In addition, Taiwan's "CNPC" Linyuan petrochemical plant and other emergency shutdowns, relevant sources said, "at least ten or two billion losses."
According to reports, the power outage has caused damage to the supply chains of semiconductors, optoelectronics and Apple on the island. Wafer foundries: TSMC, UMC, panel manufacturers: Innolux, AUO and Caijing, lens factories: Largan, etc. due to the voltage drop in Taiwan Affected, factory equipment and production machines are implicated, and the market estimates that the loss may reach NT$10 billion.
In addition, "CNPC" Linyuan Petrochemical Plant and Dalin Plant were shut down in an emergency, and the petrochemical industry chain "jumped".
The "PetroChina Petrochemical" business unit said that it would take three days from refurbishment to restart the furnace to restore production capacity, and the loss would not be able to escape at least ten or two billion.
According to the report, ASE, a major semiconductor packaging and testing company on the island, has a total of 30 factories in Kaohsiung, excluding 4 buildings under construction, and 26 factories are affected by power outages; a senior executive lamented that Taipower had frequent small power outages in the past, similar to surprise exercises. The power outage lasted for a long time, minutes passed, and the power was not restored. It was described as "almost unable to breathe".
According to statistics from the Bureau of Industry of Taiwan's "Ministry of Economics", 48 of the 62 industrial zones in Taiwan were affected by power outages; the southern part of the science and technology industrial park was more affected, with 521 manufacturers experiencing power outages.
The report mentioned that southern Taiwan is an important petrochemical industry center. There are 22 factories in Kaohsiung Linyuan Industrial Zone, 11 petrochemical factories in the medium and large areas of Renda Industrial Zone, and 34 factories in Renwu. There was no early warning power outage on the 3rd. Many operating The boiler was forced to stop.
Jian Shoufang, director of the Linyuan Industrial Zone Service Center, said that "it would be impossible for a petrochemical plant to shut down for one minute".
The report also mentioned that petrochemical companies on the island were dissatisfied with the unwarranted power outage and threatened to seek compensation from Taipower.
According to an internal employee of Taiwan's "CNPC", the "815 Taiwan-wide power outage" in 2017 was due to the negligence of the "CNPC" contractor, which caused all 6 units of the Dataan Power Plant to trip. compensation.
Taiwan's "Ministry of Economics" Processing Export Zone Management Office said that "303 power outages" affected a total of 6 processing zones and parks, including Nanzi Processing Zone, Qianzhen Processing Zone, Linguang Processing Zone, Kaohsiung Software Park, and Chenggong Logistics. Park, and Pingtung Processing Zone.
Some employees in the processing area said that the power has not been restored for a long time, and some companies let their employees go home directly at noon. Another industry source revealed that ASE, Huatai, and NXP in the Nanzi processing area suffered a lot.