# Island-wide blackouts hit under Tsai’s energy path

Date: 2022

## The fact

On 3 March 2022 and again later, large blackouts hit Taiwan as Taipower struggled with a nuclear-exit-and-renewables mix Tsai had backed.

## Context

Taipower operates. She did not sit as a dispatcher.

2018 energy referendum is the neighbouring political-constraint row.

The president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) is head of state under the Additional Articles. She does not write a PRC statute, a US NDAA, a TSMC board minute, or a 2026 Lai cabinet order. She left office on 20 May 2024; [Lai Ching-te](/people/lai-ching-te) is president. A blackout is not a finding that every reactor was thereby safe. A Pelosi transit is not a PRC missile. Allegation of a stolen 2018 referendum is not stored as a completed steal. An indigenous apology is not a land-title gazette. A New Southbound brand is not an FTA by itself. A 2024 LY split is not a finding that the 2020 mandate was void.

## Evidence and sources

Taiwan Power Company carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 3 March 2022 large blackout under her presidency, independently reported.

Not established: that she personally tripped a plant, or a unique later factory-output coefficient from the hour.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Taipower dispatched. Plants tripped. Households sat in the dark.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Island-wide blackouts hit under Tsai’s energy path, not a later speech about Island-wide blackouts hit under Tsai’s energy path.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Island-wide blackouts hit under Tsai’s energy path on 2022-03-03 is not a licence to treat every later Taiwan Power Company communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Island-wide blackouts hit under Tsai’s energy path into a personality. Taipower dispatched. Plants tripped. Households sat in the dark. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Tsai Ing-wen: https://factrail.ai/people/tsai-ing-wen

## Drivers

- Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security
- Nuclear-Energy Deployment: https://factrail.ai/drivers/nuclear-energy-deployment

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-blackout-taipower-2022-03-03/
- https://www.taipower.com.tw/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tw-tsai-blackout-2022