Since 7:00 p.m. tonight, power outages have occurred in the Zhongli and Pingzhen areas of Taoyuan City. According to statistics from the Taiwan Power Company, a total of 4,793 households have been affected.

(Extracted from the FB community "I am from Pingzhen")

[Reporter Chen Enhui/Taoyuan Report] Since 7:00 tonight in Zhongli, Pingzhen and other areas of Taoyuan City, power outages have occurred one after another. According to the statistics of Taiwan Power Company, a total of 4,793 households were affected. After emergency repairs, they are still Nearly 2,000 households have not called yet, and repairs are ongoing. Taoshi 119 Qinzhi Center recorded that starting from Zhongli tonight, there have been many fires and sparks on power poles in areas such as Bade, Guanyin, and Yangmei. As a result, there was a power outage, and the cause of the fire is still under investigation by Taipower.

The Taipower Taoyuan District Sales Office stated that at 7:20 p.m. today (12th), the power was cut due to an accident at the Dongshe Power Distribution Substation, resulting in Dade Street, Xinxingli, and Dequan Street in Zhongli District, Taoyuan City.

Daren Street, Dayong Street, Dazhi Street, Beishili, Pingdong Road, Section 1-2 of Pingdong Road, Dongshi Section of Sanxing Road, Zhengyi Road, Dongsheli, Dongshili, Section 2-5 of Jinling Road, Nandong Road, Pingzhen District 4,793 households in Jian'anli, the first section of Xingdong Road, and Guanye East Road were cut off.

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Taipower switched power supply and restored power to 1,523 households immediately at 8:00 p.m., and then continued to rush to restore power to 1,350 households at 10:30 p.m. At present, there are still 1,920 households in the second to fifth sections of Jinling Road that are still out of power. As for the accident The reason remains to be investigated.

In the Facebook group "I am from Pingzhen" at 7:29 p.m., someone posted a PO post asking "Is there a power outage in Pingzhen?" 79 netizens followed, liked, responded with surprise or cried, and 54 left a message "Jinling Road , Jinxing Street, Beixing Street, the generation of Jinlingli, but the Huannan Road next door is bright", "Our Zhenxingli belongs to Zhongli District, so we stopped anyway", "I just saw a Taipower emergency repair vehicle on Pingdong Road using a flashlight along the road According to the telephone poles, it seems to be looking for a faulty electric barrel", "A section of Pingdong Road has a power outage", and some netizens said, "Fortunately there will be no Chinese team game tonight".