base load, definition of

The average amount of electric power that a utility must supply in any period.

• Renewable power cannot reproduce base load availability
  We look at the question of whether renewable power is able to provide 100% coverage for base load and therefore remove the need for it.

• The 3-part view of power generation
  This is a guest post on my request from DoDo, contributing editor at European Tribune, who works in the railway sector.

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