According to a Department of Energy report, as reported by US News [1], in 2023 California ranked #37 for "the number of minutes of power outages the average customer experiences in a year". Texas was much better at #28.
People probably think otherwise because of availability bias, after that multi day outage that made headlines nationwide a few years ago. (In the same way that people overestimate the danger of plane crashes because they're rare but dramatic.)
The DoE report on California is skewed by rural areas that suffer outages due to wildfires and winter storms. There have been no extended outages that effect large cities on the scale of Houston.
People probably think otherwise because of availability bias, after that multi day outage that made headlines nationwide a few years ago. (In the same way that people overestimate the danger of plane crashes because they're rare but dramatic.)
1: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/infrastruct...