Owing to continuous economic growth, booming growth of industry and commerce, the upgrading of people’s living standard, etc., the demand on electricity has developed from merely “having” power to having “stable and reliable” power. To stabilize power supply system quality, the company specially set up a committee to take the responsibility of ① making decisions on the improvement measures for power system stability and reliability and ② reviewing and following-up measures for strengthening power system stability.

Measures for power supply stability include: ① undertaking reasonable, effective and safe power dispatch, ② simplifying the scales of power voltages, ③ upgrading distribution voltages, ④ adding high-efficiency (over 40%) combined-cycle units to the power system, ⑤ balancing regional power demand, ⑥ conducting load management - implementing time-of-use and seasonal rates, interruptible power rates and promoting ice-storage central air conditioning system, ⑦ installing transmission facilities, ⑧ strengthening power theft control, etc.

In addition to executing the annual plans of power supply and distribution system expansion to increase power supply capacity and strengthen load management, the company has also been actively implementing feeder automation system projects. It is in an effort to control system operation status to effectively reduce outage time and range.

The major advantages of implementing the distribution feeder automation system are to reduce ① outage duration from 60 minutes to lower than 5 minutes and ② fault location time and effort. The priority areas for implementing the feeder automation system include science parks, industrial zones, popular areas in cities and counties, tourist scenic spots, and important government facilities. In 2007, Taipower accomplished the goal of installing 2,110 feeders. It is planned to install over 50% of the overall automatic feeders for the distribution system.

The company listed power supply reliability as its important annual management index. Its goal is to reduce SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index) and SAIFI (System Average Interruption Frequency Index) to pursue excellent power supply quality.