A machine that operates continuously is a perfect machine, and no machine is perfect.

The greater the number and diversity of machines, as well as their geographical dispersion, the greater their availability.

In this respect, a mix of renewables (solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, etc.) deployed on a continental scale, along with storage (batteries and V2(G|H), hydro, green hydrogen...) is unbeatable (total cost, availability, risk, etc.).

Tangent, but "outage" and "7 month" makes me feel like we need a new word.

Maybe modern day and tech has given "outage" a much shorter connotation than what it meant in the past.

7 months? That's almost longer than the Christmas offseason.