What is the load-duration curve? Figure 1. An example of weekly load fluctuations and roughly how power plants can be categorized as baseload, intermediate, or peaking plants. We can imagine a load–time curve, such as that shown in Fig. 1, as being a series of one-hour power demands arranged in Read more…
Load-following power plant A load-following power plant, regarded as producing “mid-merit” or “mid-priced” electricity, is a power plant that adjusts its power output as demand for electricity fluctuates throughout the day. Load-following plants are typically in between base-load and peaking power plants in efficiency, speed of start-up and shut-down, construction Read more…