A technical review of the power outage on July 29, 1999 in Taiwan

摘要

One of the severest power outages occurred at 11:31 p.m. on July29, 1999 in Taiwan when the #326 transmission tower collapsed due to alandslide, which disconnected around 8.46 millions of the electricityconsumers from the energy supply. This paper provides a technical reviewof the power outage event on July 29, 1999. The authors summarize thepower system characteristics and the network conditions prior to,during, and after the incident. Finally, the lessons learned from thepower failure and future strategies to be adopted by Taiwan PowerCompany are concluded