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Re:Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? by gumby on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @03:55PM (#37313027)
> No matter how you put it, the US residential power grid is conceptionally lagging.

Not just conceptually == reliability is lower than that of its peers: https://www.statista.com/statistics/268155/ranking-of-the-20... (if you don't have a statista account, US is at the bottom of this list at 98.6)

State level data: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/

Re:Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? by IcyWindows on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @10:15PM (#37316848)
I don't believe any country can have 100% reliability, so the data is suspect.