>>>Really impressive. It must have been June or July that there was a major power cut that affected most major cities in Bolivia. Then the power cut in the United States. I think a few days ago there was another one somewhere in Europe (?), and now in Italy. I wonder whether there are other power cuts which I overlooked.
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>>Simply, and generally due to a lack of investment in infrastructure. That was the underlying reason for the one in Bolivia, USA/Canada and Uk recently. I don't know about Italy but I'd suspect the same.
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>>At least in our country, it was known for years that the infrastructure needs fixing. Fixing costs money. Lots of money. Ask the politicians.
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>Yes, it should be quite obvious that 1) The maximum capacity must be more, not less, than the maximum expected usage, and 2) Some sort of redundancy is required, in case one line, generator, etc., fails. All this costs money, and probably there haven't been enough investments in many countries.
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>And yet, I am surprised that now these problems seem to surface all over the World, all of a sudden. Perhaps I am wrong, but this is the general impression I have.

It does seem to be coming up several times. A common feature with the US/Italian ones was the countries blaming outside power suppliers. I don't think that was the case with the UK (though there is some power exchange between the UK and France) and I don't know about Bolivia.