How stretched is the grid where you live?
What the grid operators themselves say about the season, and how many minutes without power homes actually had. Official sources only, no made-up scores.
Read this first: the seasonal warnings are about the big power system running short in extreme weather. Most outages that hit your home are local: a tree on a line, a storm, a broken transformer. A calm, green region still has outages. That is why we also show real outage times.
How we build this page
We take the official seasonal assessments of the bodies responsible for the grid: NERC for the US and Canada, ENTSO-E for Europe, NESO for Great Britain, AEMO for Australia. We read each report in full, copy their own risk level, and link the original. We don't add our own score: their levels are built on detailed supply models we can't see, and a home-made number would only look more precise than it is.
Outage times come from the regulators: the US Energy Information Administration (EIA-861, five-year average), Ofgem for Great Britain (2024/25) and the European regulators' benchmarking report (CEER, 2014–2018 average, the latest Europe-wide comparison). Each country counts a little differently, so compare within a region, not across them.