Kuo Jan-tai, a civil engineering professor at National Taiwan University, points out that because the water reservoirs in Taiwan are naturally unreliable storehouses of water, dams usually generate only one-tenth of Taiwan's electricity supply.
針對被認為造成限電的水庫缺水，台大土木系教授郭振泰指出，台灣水庫先天蓄水量不穩定，實際水力發電量只佔全台發電量一成，限電與缺水並無直接關係。