Power generation just like any other business strives to operate at the least cost so as to improve on its profit. To achieve this economics, the power utility must forecast and prime generators that will pick up load as it comes up. The generator called up to pick up load must be suitable for the nature of load: Viz peak load and base load. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for making out time to read the post.Your observation is in order.Peak load plant operates only to cater for peak load after which it is switched off. Base load plant operates continuously throughout the hours of the day due to its inherent low running cost.Thanks for your time and patience.
Power generation just like any other business strives to operate at the least cost so as to improve on its profit. To achieve this economics, the power utility must forecast and prime generators that will pick up load as it comes up. The generator called up to pick up load must be suitable for the nature of load: Viz peak load and base load. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for making out time to read the post.Your observation is in order.Peak load plant operates only to cater for peak load after which it is switched off. Base load plant operates continuously throughout the hours of the day due to its inherent low running cost.Thanks for your time and patience.