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		MR4D 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Balcony solar is taking off Germany doesn’t have hurricanes or wildfires. Take those out and I’d bet the grids are much more comparable. PGE has to de-energize lines to prevent fires. Hurricanes just blow them down.

wklauss 11 months ago [–]

The links actually cover this, since EIA tracks major events in power disruptions and separates them in the graph. US network is still orders of magnitude worse than Germany.

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