TAIPEI — Taiwan is enduring repeated electric power outages this summer time, exposing the vulnerability of the energy offer in Asia’s most significant chipmaking hub.

In between July 1 and Aug. 29, the island has witnessed 22 electrical power outages influencing 1,000 homes or more, with the worst hitting 17,000, in accordance to Nikkei Asia’s analysis of disclosures from state-owned Taiwan Power Co. A further eight hit wherever from 44 to 962 properties. The most recurrent brings about specified for these incidents — which occur amid historically significant temperatures — include malfunctions of feedlines, ability transformers and substantial-voltage cables.