peaking plant
1Peaking 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 …
2Peaking Hydropower — A hydropower plant that is operated at maximum allowable capacity for part of the day and is either shut down for the remainder of the time or operated at minimal capacity level …
3Load 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… …
4Clifty Creek Power Plant — Clifty Creek Power Plant …
5Base 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… …
6Marble Hill Nuclear Power Plant — Marble Hill Nuclear Power Station is a nuclear power plant in Saluda Township, Jefferson County, near Hanover, Indiana, USA (N38° 36.01 W085° 26.74 ) . It was first proposed in 1973 by Public Service Indiana (PSI) and was finally closed due to… …
7Fossil fuel power plant — A fossil fuel power plant burns fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas or petroleum (oil) to produce electricity.Fossil fuel power plants are designed on a large scale for continuous operation. In many countries, such plants provide most of the… …
8Virtual 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 …
9Nevada Power Company — headquarters in Las Vegas Nevada Power Company is a Las Vegas based company that produces, distributes and sells electricity in southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. As of 2005, Nevada Power had over 700,000 electric customers in parts of… …
10Lakeview Generating Station — The Lakeview Generating Station was an Ontario Power Generation coal burning station located in Lakeview, a community just east of Port Credit, in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The former station was located just east of Lakeshore Road and… …
