China News Service, Beijing, March 31 (Reporter Liu Shuling) After a large-scale power outage without warning occurred again on March 3, small-scale power outages occurred one after another in various places. On the 30th, only Kaohsiung and Taipei experienced three power outages, affecting More than 2,000 residents and businesses.
"Anti-nuclear" political propositions take precedence over the profession of energy policy, and Taiwan under the DPP's governance must endure prolonged and normalized power shortages.
Investment banker and President of Lantao Asia Huang Qiyuan recently pointed out in a column in Taiwan's "Business Week" that the power outage in Taiwan lasted for more than 10 hours earlier this month, indicating that Taiwan's energy structure is fragile.
He bluntly said that the "2025 Non-Nuclear Homeland" of the DPP authorities set a target of 20% renewable energy, and now it is less than 6%; in the energy structure, natural gas accounts for more than 50%, which is all dependent on imports and faces global shortages , prices soared.
Many European countries will restart nuclear energy, and it is urgent for Taiwan to re-discuss its energy policy.
However, the Taiwan administration still decided on the 28th not to raise electricity prices before the end of June.
It seems to be a policy of sympathy for the industry and people's livelihood, but in fact, the suppression of the market mechanism is making the power outage problem in Taiwan worse.
Lin Jianshan, a Taiwanese expert, president of the Global Economic Society and director of the Institute of Public Policy, pessimistically believes that the energy policy set by the DPP based on ideology has determined the inevitable "long-term and sustainable structural shortage in Taiwan's economy and society". Electricity".
Lin Jianshan pointed out that since 2014, Taiwan's backup power capacity has been below 15% for a long time (the statutory backup power capacity is 15%), and it will drop below 6% in 2021. stage.
Various forms of energy risks will continue to hang high, and the lack of electricity will undoubtedly greatly deteriorate the investment and business environment.
The large and small power outages that occurred in March also caused inconvenience to the people of Taiwan and a lot of losses.
According to the inventory of Taiwan's economic affairs department, only one major power outage occurred on March 3, which brought private losses of more than NT$6 billion.
When questioning Su Zhenchang, the head of the administrative agency of the DPP authority, on the 29th, Gao Jin Sumei, a public opinion representative, said that the people lived in fear of a lack of electricity, but the rulers loudly said that there was no shortage of electricity, that electricity prices were frozen, power cuts took place, and the grassroots were punished. absolve.
She questioned that the pursuit of a "non-nuclear homeland" turned out to be that 80% of the energy came from thermal power generation, and Taiwan was smoky, and power outages and power outages occurred one after another in the process.
Can such a policy be reviewed?
However, Su Zhenchang still emphasized in the report on the "Taiwan-wide power outage caused by the Xingda power plant accident" that the power outage in early March was caused by a series of negligence in various links under extreme circumstances, and there is no intention to review.
The DPP's "non-nuclear homeland" policy imitates the Western, especially Germany's environmental protection proposition.
But at present, Germany is ready to suspend the action of abolishing nuclear power, and many Western countries plan to turn to restarting or even adding nuclear power plants.
For DPP politicians, Taiwan's economic development has been plagued by energy problems for many years, and the path to solution has always been clear.
The reason why it cannot be reviewed and resolved lies in the fact that it cannot shake the political "master card" of "anti-nuclear" and "Taiwan independence".
For this reason, Taiwan's "United Daily News" published "Careful!
In the article "Frozen Rising Electricity Worse," the conclusion pointed out that electricity is not just electricity, it reflects the incompetence and hypocrisy of the authorities.
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