I'm always curious why the US has so many power outages and brownouts. Here in the Netherlands, and as far as I know (but I could be wrong) in most of western E

I'm always curious why the US has so many power outages and brownouts. Here in the Netherlands, and as far as I know (but I could be wrong) in most of western Europe as long as you don't live in a very rural area, we have an outage maybe once every five years.