Watching The Baseload Paradigm Fail

CleanTechnica
By George HarveyAug 3, 2020, 3:50 pm590 ptsHot
Because of the nature of baseload power plants, only supplying enough to cover the base load, other plants have to be put online to cover any demand above the base load. These include load-following plants, which are more costly to run. In the old days, many of these ran on oil. Nowadays, the fuel of choice is…

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