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I live in Europe and I have had 7 power cuts this year. I don't even bother resetting the time on my thermostat. Local town is 8km away, 200k people.

So all Europe are managed the same way?

What do you know about how the grid is operated anyway?

"Works for me, so must work for everybody."

out of the few places ive lived, seattle is the only one that had power outages on a regular basis.

maybe not all of europe is good, but at least many places in the US are bad at it

I live in the US and I also experience almost no power outages. And no battery storage.

Most likely because you have a) buried power lines and b) less exposure to destructive storms.