TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taipower said that during Typhoon Danas' impact from Sunday to Monday, nearly 1,400 power poles and several high-voltage transmission towers were toppled, leaving about 829,000 households without power.

The typhoon made landfall in southwestern Taiwan. Without the Central Mountain Range to act as a natural barrier, its strong winds severely damaged parts of the power grid in northern coastal areas and central and southern regions, causing nearly 200 switches and transformers to be damaged, per CNA.

Chiayi and Tainan experienced power outages for 550,000 households during the typhoon, making them the hardest-hit regions. Taipower said it has restored power to 440,000 households. To speed up repairs, over 1,000 Taipower personnel will be dispatched on Wednesday.

As of 9 p.m. Tuesday, 34,790 households in Tainan were still without power, according to Taipower. Due to the outages, the city government announced the suspension of work and classes in 12 districts on Wednesday.

Three 69-kilovolt high-voltage transmission towers at the Budai Township substation in Chiayi were knocked down by the typhoon, affecting nearly 10,000 households there. Since repairing the towers requires heavy machinery for lifting, the restoration process may be delayed, Taipower said. It has activated a cross-region support mechanism and set up temporary power lines to address the issue.

Taipower added that power was restored to households in Miaoli and Taoyuan by Monday night. However, 893 households in Yunlin, 659 in Nantou, and 46 in Kaohsiung remained without power, many of them in mountainous regions, which has slowed repair efforts. Taipower has deployed approximately 400 employees to these areas since Tuesday.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs reported that offshore wind power facilities sustained no damage from the typhoon. It added that wind turbines at Taiwan's wind farms are built to withstand strong winds and can activate protection mechanisms to reduce their rotation speed when wind speeds become too high.

Since Sunday, power generation from offshore wind farms has steadily increased, reaching 2.29 million kilowatts by midnight Monday and accounting for 9.2% of total electricity consumption.