I don't understand how a hyper developped rich country like the USA tolerates so many grid failures over times. I do not mean that as a critic or boasting about ours or whatever, and I do understand (a bit of) the specifics that gives this end result, I just don't understand why there hasn't been a massive push by the population to make that issue one politicians had to fix.
Short of their pylons being taken down from storm/flood/... causing localized failures, the french grid virtually never goes down like this, and yet even then people complain if it takes too long to recover after a small localized blackout.
Or maybe this is a biased view I have from not living there and only getting fragmented news about it, and grid failures are actually very rare in the USA too ?
Short of their pylons being taken down from storm/flood/... causing localized failures, the french grid virtually never goes down like this, and yet even then people complain if it takes too long to recover after a small localized blackout.
Or maybe this is a biased view I have from not living there and only getting fragmented news about it, and grid failures are actually very rare in the USA too ?