Electricity to Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park Fully Restored
Taipei, Sept. 25 (CNA) Electricity to Taiwan's semiconductor industry stronghold, the Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park, was fully restored on Saturday, according to park administration officials.
Most of the silicon wafer foundry plants had already resumed operating at full capacity, the officials added.
Normal power supplies of 505,000 kilowatts to the park, which is home to 26 6-inch wafer plants, was resumed on Saturday morning, four days after Tuesday's disastrous earthquake knocked out electricity to the park.
About 85 percent of the power was supplied by the Taiwan Power Company and a private Hsinyu Company which generates electricity with its waste energy.
The other 15 percent is being provided by standby generators at various plants throughout the park.
The electricity, which was cut off when pylons carrying power from southern Taiwan to the northern region collapsed during the tremor, had been restored to about 50 percent capacity on Friday.
Water supplies have also been resumed, with about 11 million tons of water channeled into the plants' reservoirs on Saturday.
Nitrogen gas used in the wafer foundries has been in full supply since Friday, while fuel consumption has declined since the resumption of electricity has eased the need for the plants to use their own generators.
The power outage over the past four days has caused estimated losses of NT$200 million (US$6.25 million) to each of the 26 plants, not to mention the losses caused as a result of equipment damaged during the temblor, said the park administration. |
