No, I am not saying that, they do have their problems, like what happened in Spring of 2008 when a half of country was experiencing a severe winter storm, like you said, act of god. But personally I had never experienced power outage in China and the reason being what I have stated in my last post.
Based on what I know, China's national grid actually have redundant power generation capacity just in case, which is very different from "for profit" power companies here where redundant capacity is a drag on balance sheet.
For some reasons, TX power grid is independent from other power grids in the states which made helping hand unavailable. But in China, National Grid means national.
China has a policy to give civilian electricity supply higher priority than industrial use. When the power supply is tight, they switch off business first, and in most scenarios it's done orderly.
The head of any Chinese power company is also a government officer, and his competancy is put on line in emergency situation so he has to work his *** out.
Chinese style governance can handle emergency better than democracy, and we may as well face it.
