Baseload is a myth
- One of the recurring meme’s in electricity is ‘baseload’, the idea that there is a consistent minimum level of load that should be matched up against big generation plants to maximize efficiency.
- This idea is archaic, once rooted in fact but now obsolete.
- Its persistence skews otherwise productive conversations about the future of energy, and we need to retire the term like the coal plants that originally powered it.
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- One of the recurring meme’s in electricity is ‘baseload’, the idea that there is a consistent minimum level of load that should be matched up against big generation plants to maximize efficiency.
- This idea is archaic, once rooted in fact but now obsolete.
- Its persistence skews otherwise productive conversations about the future of energy, and we need to retire the term like the coal plants that originally powered it.
Sources: Cleanenergyreview