I would add that part of the difference is service level between the US and Germany. In Germany the outages are far less frequent and for a lot less time.
Outages in the US are very rare. I’ve had three outages in the past 15 years. Two were just a second or two and came back on, one was for a few hours after a big storm.
Of course the US is huge so service levels vary depending on where you are.
On average an electricity customer in the USA experiences more the 20 times the interruption to service compared to one in Germany when measured by annual minutes of outage per customer.
2000/2001 California electricity crisis, 2003 Northeast blackout, 2011 Southwest blackout, 2019 California rolling shutoffs, 2021 Texas blackout. In Quebec over a million people lost power last Wednesday, and four days later over 100.000 are still without power.
The only one I can think of in Europe is the 2003 Italy blackout.
And that's just the major ones. I can't even imagine how often people in tornado/hurricane-prone areas must have to deal with blackouts due to the local electricity wires being on poles.
