base-load power plant
1Base load power plant — Baseload (also base load, or baseload demand) is the minimum amount of power that a utility or distribution company must make available to its customers, or the amount of power required to meet minimum demands based on reasonable expectations of… …
2Load following power plant — A load following power plant is a power plant that adjusts its power output as demand for electricity fluctuates throughout the day. Load following plants are in between base load and peaking power plants in efficiency, speed of startup and… …
3Peaking power plant — Peaking power plants, also known as peaker plants, are power plants that generally run only when there is a high demand, known as peak demand, for electricity. In the United States, this often occurs in the afternoon, especially during the summer …
4base load — Chiefly Brit. the constant or permanent load on a power supply. [1925 30] * * * base load, that quantity of electrical power that a power plant or power system must deliver in order to satisfy ordinary or minimum needs …
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6Oak Creek Power Plant — Oak Creek Power Plant …
7Pleasant Prairie Power Plant — Infobox Power Station station name=Pleasant Prairie Power Plant location=Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin owner= status=Active fuel type=Coal mine type= conveyance=Rail cooling water=Two mechanical draft towers 300 x75 tall technology=Steam Turbine… …
8Flint Creek Power Plant — Infobox Power Station station name=Flint Creek Power Plant caption= Flint Creek Power Plant location=Benton County, Arkansas owner=½ SWEPCO/AEP and ½ Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp status=Active fuel type=Powder River Basin Coal mine type=… …
9Virtual power plant — A virtual power plant is a cluster of distributed generation installations (such as microCHP, wind turbines, small hydro, back up gensets etc.) which are collectively run by a central control entity. The energy crisis in America has opened up the …
10Nuclear power plant — This article is about electricity generation from nuclear power. For the general topic of nuclear power, see Nuclear power. A nuclear power station. The nuclear reactor is contained inside the cylindrical containment buildings to the right left… …
