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Admittedly I have only lived on the outskirts of London for pretty much my entire life, but there are - over that entire period - only three power outages that I can remember.

After heavy rain, there was a landslip at a chalk pit that took out the local substation.

At work, some robbers tried to blow their way into a bank vault, but in the process took out a major electricity supply cable.

Some thieves tried to steal a copper power line (250KVA, I think) and took out a small town.

Things like brownouts are pretty much unknown.

So yes, in Britain MOST people MOST of the time never experience a problem. The only people who will see any need for a UPS are people who live near an industrial area where their neighbours are dirtying the supply. Outside of that, supply is both good and reliable, and short outages are almost unknown. If there's a problem, it's either with the house supply itself, or in the cases I've mentioned above it's a major but localised problem - at one day, the first problem was the one rectified the quickest of the above three. The second took a week, while the third left many homes without power for days ...

Cheers,
Wol