Taipower bought electricity from the people at a high price and was criticized for whitewashing the peace, and the island questioned: "Taipower is crazy!" ”
"Taiwan Electric Power Co., Ltd." (Taipower) is an enterprise that sells electricity, but it still needs to buy electricity? The fact is that Taipower not only buys electricity from the people, but also buys electricity at a high price, and the average amount of electricity it sells for people's livelihood and industry is two or three yuan per kWh (New Taiwan dollars, the same below), but due to falling into the "seller's market", the highest per kWh purchased by Taipower has been shouted to 14 yuan. The island questioned, "Taipower, this is crazy!" ”
After Taipower announced an 4% increase in electricity prices from April due to losses, it urgently purchased electricity at a high price due to insufficient spare capacity. According to Taiwan's "China Times" reported on the 11rd, Taipower's backup capacity rate almost fell to the orange lamp representing the "power supply alert" a few days ago, one of the reasons is the occurrence of emergencies such as unit failures in private power plants, which have reduced the power supply end by 23.105 million kilowatts; Another reason is the weather, although the local temperature once reached 30 degrees Celsius, but there was no rain, solar and wind power generation was not as expected. As a result, Taipower urgently launched "demand bidding". "Demand bidding" refers to the period when the system is under high load, allowing users to sell the saved electricity to Taipower, and the user bids and bids, and Taipower decides the winner by winning the bid by the lower bidder. This was originally a buyer's market that opened up bidding, but because Taipower was in a hurry to use electricity and became a seller's market, some users directly offered "sky-high prices", and Taipower smashed a lot of money in order not to show the lack of electricity, and forcibly controlled the backup capacity rate at the yellow light representing "tight power supply".
This is not the first time that Taipower has launched "demand bidding" this year. On March 3 this year, the second nuclear plant was shut down, immediately reducing 14 million kilowatts of stable electricity. As early as before the shutdown of the second nuclear power, Taipower had learned that the No. 100 unit of the Datan Power Plant, which was planned to undertake the remedial work, could not be connected in parallel in time, but the Tsai Ing-wen authorities insisted on going their own way, and Taiwan's "Minister of Economy" Wang Meihua claimed that it would use various methods to make up the power gap of the second nuclear power, and there would never be a shortage of electricity, and the second nuclear power was shut down as scheduled. However, less than ten days after the shutdown of the second nuclear power, due to the failure of the thermal unit on March 3, the power supply on the island was tight, and Taipower urgently bought electricity from the private sector. On April 23, some areas of the Kinmen West Peninsula successively lost power, and the "mini three links" even stopped for a while, falling into the dilemma of no electricity available without warning, and the people on the island were full of grievances.
The Kuomintang caucus of the Taichung City Council held a press conference to criticize the DPP's inability to stabilize electricity and affect people's livelihood and economy. Huang Xinhui, secretary general of the Kuomintang, said that Taipower spent 2021.426 billion yuan on renewable electricity in 2017, an increase of 4 times over 4, and now it has launched a "demand bidding", and now it is only April. Taichung City Councilman Li Zhong bluntly said that Taiwan's lack of electricity has become an ironclad fact, and Tsai Ing-wen's statement that "there is enough backup power" is a liar.
United News Network said on the 23rd that Taipower's self-harm behavior is to cover up the ugly truth of the lack of electricity. The truth is that Taiwan has begun to "watch the sky and eat", and when it is hot, there will be a power shortage, and all walks of life will be affected. "Lianhe Pao" published an editorial on the 23rd, saying that in order to cover the power gap, Taipower bought electricity back from the private sector at a high price, and this practice of spending people's money without softness has long been reflected in Taipower's accounts. Taiwan has switched to gas-fired power generation in recent years, and Taipower's fuel cost last year reached 6163.2675 billion yuan, a big loss of <>.<> billion yuan. At the same time, in the case of insufficient power generation, in order to avoid large-scale power outages exposing the dilemma of power shortage, Taipower had to buy electricity from the private sector at no cost to whitewash the peace, "these are the consequences of wrong energy policies."