Taiwan President Says to Scrutinise Electricity Management After Outages

FILE PHOTO: People eat using the light from their phone while experiencing a blackout due to an outage at a power plant, in Taipei, Taiwan, May 13, 2021. REUTER/Ann Wang Reuters TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen pledged on Tuesday to look into the tech powerhouse’s electricity management after two major blackouts hit homes and businesses in less than a week, triggering criticism of the government’s power policy. Taiwan, which hosts major chip makers such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd, imposed power cuts on Monday evening following a spike in demand amid a heatwave and drought and failure…