The one consolation was that Taiwan's steel and petrochemical industries, which operate around the clock and cannot afford to shut down, are concentrated in the Kaohsiung-Pingtung region, where the lights stayed on. Otherwise the financial losses would have been far greater.
不幸中的大幸是，屬於連續式生產、不能停機的鋼鐵、石化業多在停電範圍外的高屏地區，未被殃及，否則損失將更為慘重。