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

Author

Lee, Chien-Hsing ; Hsieh, Shih-Chieh

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., I-Shou Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1353

Abstract

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

Keywords

poles and towers; power overhead lines; power transmission faults; reviews; substations; 29 07 1999; Taiwan; Taiwan Power Company; electricity consumers; ower system characteristics; power failure; power network conditions; power outage; technical review; transmission tower collapse; Cables; Capacity planning; Cities and towns; Distributed parameter circuits; Energy consumption; Poles and towers; Power generation; Power transmission lines; Substations; Terrain factors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, 2001. IEEE

Conference_Location

Columbus, OH

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6672-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESW.2001.917283

Filename

917283