| I'm in Australia, typically I work remote areas, in the past globally (geophysical exploration) so I see power outages as "the norm" that you plan for. Our cities (we only have a few big ones) all have pretty solid power delivery - as do most US large cities. The US has "two" major grids, \1 most of the USofA, and 2\ Texas (which traditionally had minimal connection to elsewhere) The \1 grid is most robust in the north east, patches into Canada (IIRC), and has some long connections to the West Coast. Texas had some major outages in severe winter conditions, there's a whole story about that * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis it's interesting as a systems failure. Elsewhere in the US it's a function (by my guess) of how far some people are from major centres, whether there are major wildfires (california, and other parts), and if they're bridged across via "private" operators that have poor standards. The US doesn't have uniform federal / state capital infrastructure (roads, rail, powerlines, telecomms, sewerage, water, etc) which is a strength / weakness depending on how people view these things. |