baseload
Noun
Meaning
baseload (plural baseloads)
The minimum load on a power station over a standard period.
Examples
Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.
Downstream, Air Products provides membrane nitrogen generators for LNG carriers, and land-based membrane and cryogenic nitrogen systems for LNG import terminals and baseload LNG plants.
Baseload options such as coal or nuclear can’t easily increase and decrease their generated supply which means they need to operate to handle the peaks resulting in over capacity for the rest of the time.
These misconceptions are important to dispel as potential future power shortages along with increased clean power mandates make having a clean and reliable baseload power source like nuclear increasingly important.
Dependable baseload electricity will be required.
In 2014, the Coal Baseload Independent Power Producers Programme (Coal IPP) programme was launched in a bid to procure increased capacity and facilitate private sector participation in baseload generation.