Once-abundant reserves have been eroded, so Taipower is now running itself ragged trying to increase power output, and is not able to simultaneously figure out how to get current facilities to operate at maximum efficiency or get to the root of internal management problems.
豐裕的備用電力逐漸被蠶食鯨吞，也逼得擁有高備載容量的台電，疲憊追趕電力成長，而無法兼顧如何讓現有設備發揮最高效率，以及其經營管理的問題。