Taiwan island’s electricity infrastructure is notoriously poor.
I was there in 2000’s and there was a blackout of the entire northern section of the island including Taipei for 2 days. Apparently one HVPL from the main nuclear plant failed, that’s all it took. These sort of multi day black outs occur quite routinely.
Furthermore, the current government lead by the DPP party has indefinitely suspended construction of a new nuclear power plant (make love, not electricity, their actual slogan) because it’s nuclear and won’t build coal plants because of pollution.
There was another person who mentioned “informatization”. Got me thinking, PLA must have the most detailed urban and topographical maps built over the years. Through Machine Learning, they could conceivably come up with good ATGM/MANPADS hiding spots. A drone with thermal camera could scout all these locations during the initial wave, and even being correct 30% of the time would be useful.
Looks like the electricity infrastructure on the island is about to collapse on its own. These are just some of the outages since March, 2022. The ridiculous part is the execuses the power grid and the authority were using.
On Mar 3, a massive power outage hit the island. Out of the total 14 million households, more than 5 million didn't have electricity for hours:
On Mar 4, Gaoxiong, where it was hit hard the day before, had it again. The local grid claimed that the photovoltaic powerstations could not keep up after sunset:
On Mar 13, the grid was on the brink of collapse. The consumption peaked for more than an hour, leaving only 8.04% capacity as redundancy:
On Mar 15, Xinbei and Gaoxiong had power outage. more 4000 households were affected. The reason was "a shortcircuit caused by a bird":
On Mar 16, Jilong had an outage. The culprit was an electrically fried squirrel:
These are the execuses by the power grid accounted by SETN (三立, a pro-secession media):
DPP started blaming the outages on mainland saying all the incidents were works of CPC's "fifth column":
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以来，岛内几乎每天都在停电。台南永康6天内停电5次，高雄3月8日7600户停电；3月11日，台湾桃园国际机场第二航站楼发生大停电；3月12日，新北市汐止区3980户停电；3月13日，新北市林口区1800户停电、台北市万华区1100户停电；3月15日，新北市中和区2127户停电、高雄市大社区和燕巢区2000户停电；3月16日，台湾基隆市7831户停电……
对于停电原因，民进党当局先后给出了“民众修剪树木压断电缆线”“外包工人用油压剪剪断电缆”“小鸟致绝缘器破裂”“松鼠触电造成短路”等理由。
16日上午，民进党“立委”许智杰在台“立院”交委会上称，经查最近几次大停电，不管是台电还是桃园机场，几乎都是“一两个人”就造成大停电，台电不觉得奇怪吗？安全单位应该介入调查，“避免匪谍渗透台湾，影响供电”。
许智杰说，有没有人故意造成台电停电乱象，要让民众对政府不信任，背后是不是有看不到的手在影响这些人，这些人的背景、通联纪录是否要详加彻查，安全单位应该介入。
台湾绿媒也跟进炒作，称停电是“安全问题”，是大陆“第五纵队”搞的阴谋。所谓“第五纵队（Fifth column）”，一般是指与敌方里应外合，在内部进行破坏的团体。
