Any Power Company can be subject to Power Cuts

for a variety of reasons in key categories:

1.	Weather	storms, wind, ice, floods
2.	Trees	branches, fallen trees
3.	People	accidental, safe working have to switch off when repairing / installing
4.	Birds / Animals	birds electrocuted using Power Poles as perches (especially raptors), collisions of birds on flight path with Power Lines, squirrels climbing
5.	Objects	rocks, vehicles, other

This pdf is what UK Power Networks advertises about Power Cuts:

NB Nothing is mentioned page7 about outages caused by Bird Electrocution on Power Polesor by Collision with PowerLines even though they clearly do happen

By contrast