Commenting on this occurrence in a newspaper article, Professor Chang Shih-chiao of National Taiwan University's geography department wrote that if power supply for well over half the island relies on a single pylon, the design of Taiwan's energy network is clearly flawed, as are the policies under which it is managed.
台大地理系教授張石角在報上為文直言，此次大區域斷電，顯然是能源系統的設計和管理政策有瑕疵，才會讓一座小小的電塔牽動半壁江山以上的電力供應。