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by hollerith 1038 days ago
Taiwan has electricity shortages? Huh.
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Most places have occasional electricity shortages when some power plant has some short term issue, but have a large connected grid that let's them get power from elsewhere.

Ignoring all political difficulties that Taiwan might have doing that, they have a huge population on a tiny island 100 miles from anything else.

They have nuclear power plants but switched them off after Fukushima. Now they use coal and gas plants instead.