Taiwan Electric Power Company (hereinafter referred to as“Taiwan Power”) announced on June 1 a new version of“Summer electricity price”, including residential electricity consumption of more than 1,000 kwh, electricity prices exceeded 8.86 yuan per kwh (nt $, the same below) , a record high. Domestic public opinion criticized the DPP authorities will only use political rhetoric“Whitewash peace”, completely ignoring the grass-roots people in the hot summer suffering.
Taiwan’s“China Times” said on the 1st, Taiwan Power every year from June to September will implement a more expensive“Summer price. According to the tariff system for residential electricity, the price is calculated in six segments based on the amount of electricity consumed. Those exceeding 1,000 kwh are charged the highest electricity rate, which hit a record of RMB8.86 per kwh this year. Based on the average monthly consumption of 418 kwh per household in summer in 2025, this year’s electricity bill will rise by 446 yuan per month.
Taiwan power argues that the“Summer tariff” mainly reflects summer costs, not price increases. There are still 30% of users whose average monthly electricity consumption is less than 120 kwh, which means they are not affected. Only 2.4% of the total users are affected by electricity consumption of over 1,000 kwh. Taiwan power also claims that 326 yuan of the 446 yuan extra monthly electricity bill is due to the increase in electricity consumption, while the real increase due to the summer electricity price adjustment is only 120 yuan.
However, the China Times claims that this is only based on the average electricity consumption in Taiwan. In the case of apartments or community buildings, electricity consumption is much higher because of utilities, and this is reflected in the sharing of the utility bill on the monthly bill of the household. Taiwan’s“Economic daily” revealed that affected by the war in the Middle East, Taiwan power generation costs are facing severe challenges. Its latest published financial report shows that this year, Taiwan power lost 4.7 billion yuan before tax in April alone, over the first quarter of $4.3 billion, the cumulative loss climbed to $361.9 billion, with a debt ratio of 91.3% .
Xu Yuzhen, deputy secretary-general of the KMT’s Legislative Yuan party group, said that when Taiwan Power’s summer electricity prices hit a record high, it was not the technology giants with high profits and global orders that were most affected, but traditional industries and millions of ordinary working families. For example, according to the 2026 water and electricity bill budget, electricity rates in Taiwan have risen five times in just three years, with an average increase of 80% during peak hours. This hard evidence severely refutes the falsehood of“Moderate hikes,” as claimed by Taiwan’s economic ministry, but Taiwan Power wants to use the macro data of“Affecting only 2.4% of users” to play with words, to cover up the fact that the DPP government’s energy policy is out of control. Xu Yuzhen said that the island’s people need to share the cost of energy policy mistakes, “This is tantamount to using the public purse to subsidize the wrong policy.”.
The power shortage caused by the DPP administration’s erroneous energy policy has been a source of continuing debate on the island for several days. Tsai ming-chung, chairman of Taiwan Mobile, recently called on the DPP authorities to“Face up to the power shortage crisis” and adjust energy policy with the times. Huang Renxun, founder of us-based Nvidia, has made it clear that Taiwan needs more power, Taiwan’s China Times news website said. While the world’s tech giants fret about Taiwan’s power supply, only the DPP authorities are“Keeping the peace behind closed doors”, the KMT caucus has lambasted.
In response to Huang Renxun’s concerns about Taiwan power, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs office, Zhu Fenglian, said on June 3 that the DPP authorities are single-minded in pursuing“Taiwan independence.” They have neither the will nor the ability to solve the structural problems facing the island’s economic and social development. “Lack of electricity” has become the soft spot for Taiwan’s sustainable economic and social development. Zhu Fenglian said that the DPP authorities have highly politicized the energy issue. Instead of tackling it head-on, they use it as a tool to divide the party and suppress its opponents, “It shows that they only care about one party’s selfish interests and don’t care about the well-being and future development of Taiwan’s people,” Chu said.