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Re:Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? by Symbiote on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @05:06PM (#37314114)
For some statistics, "U.S. electricity customers averaged seven hours of power interruptions in 2021." [1].

At first I couldn't find equivalent European statistics, until I changed my search to "minutes", which is how Europe measures outages. The EU average in 2010-2014 was just over 2 hours, and as low as 29 minutes in Germany, or 20 here in Denmark.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=54639

[2] https://neon.energy/Neon_Data-quality_European-Commission.pd... (22nd page, figure 5)

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Re:Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? by bluGill on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @08:30PM (#37316080)
That isn't the relevant statist. We are talking about transformer explosions not all causes power outages. Transformers do explode, but not very often.

Most power outages are broken wires. According to my utility underground wires break more often than above ground, and when they break are a lot more expensive to fix. (They are trying to make a point so this might need some salt, though i don't care enough to look up what)

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Re:Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? by bombcar on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @09:11PM (#37316392)
Power outages in the USA are almost always weather or heat related. Snow/storm in many areas, heat droop or fire in others.

Buried power lines solve most of these.

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Re:Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? by Symbiote on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @02:36AM (#37318444)
It's the nearest statistic I could find — anything more is up to you.

You won't find the statistic you want for Europe, as transformers don't explode enough for them to listed separately to any other fault.

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Re:Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? by bluGill on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @06:29AM (#37319854)
I don't think you will find the relevant stats for the us either, as transformers explode so rarely.
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Re:Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? by Symbiote on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @07:09AM (#37320238)
https://www.electricrate.com/power-transformer-explosion/

https://www.tdworld.com/substations/article/20964130/risk-eq...

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