baseload
Steady power floor
Baseload is the minimum level of demand on an electrical grid over a given period—the power that must be continuously supplied regardless of time of day or season.
Power plants designed to run constantly at steady output are called baseload plants: Nuclear and coal have traditionally provided baseload power.
The term extends to any constant underlying demand: baseload internet traffic.
Facility producing electrical energy
- nuclearOf atomic energy
- coalCombustible sedimentary rock
- natural gasSubterranean hydrocarbon fuel
- generationAge-defined peer group
megawatt · gigawatt · kilowatt-hour · dispatchable · steam turbine · turbine · generator · fossil fuels
Outside busiest hours
- capacityMaximum amount containable
- supplyFurnish or stock
- outputWhat something generates
- utilizationPractical application of something
duty cycle · around-the-clock · uninterrupted · steady-state
Able to be dispatched
- availabilityState of being obtainable
- uptimeContinuous operational period
- redundancyNeedless duplication
- backupStored duplicate for recovery
Extracting metal from ore
- aluminumElement thirteen
- steel millAlloy production plant
- refineryIndustrial purification facility
- chemical plantFactory producing synthetic substances
data center · pulp mill · heavy industry · manufacturing · electrochemical · desalination · cement plant
power plant
Facility producing electrical energy
- nuclearOf atomic energy
- coalCombustible sedimentary rock
- natural gasSubterranean hydrocarbon fuel
generation · megawatt · gigawatt · kilowatt-hour · dispatchable · steam turbine · turbine · generator · fossil fuels · thermal
off-peak
Outside busiest hours
utilization · duty cycle · around-the-clock · uninterrupted · steady-state
dispatchable
Able to be dispatched
- availabilityState of being obtainable
- uptimeContinuous operational period
- redundancyNeedless duplication
smelting
Extracting metal from ore
- aluminumElement thirteen
- steel millAlloy production plant
- refineryIndustrial purification facility
chemical plant · data center · pulp mill · heavy industry · manufacturing · electrochemical · desalination · cement plant
- coal powercoal mine, coal dust, coal seam, coal yard, coal bunker
- electrical gridpower grid, power grids, electrical grid, power line, power lines
- Energy Marketsspot market, wholesale market, spot price, power exchange, bid
- power gridspower grid, transformer, substation, substations, transmission lines
- thermal powersteam turbine, boiler, power plant, thermal power, steam
- electricityelectricity, battery, batteries, wire, wires
baseloadpeak load
Highest power consumption point
peak demand · off-peak · peak · peak power · demand spike
- baseload powerMinimum constant electrical output
base, load, basis, unload, loads, loaded, basement, overload, download