Prime Power Generation - Case Study
A national electricity grid must always be able to meet the needs of its users. This requires it to be: stable, maintaining the required electrical frequency (50 Hz in the UK); balanced, continuously matching supply to demand; and adequate, ensuring total generation capacity is never outstripped by demand.
Grid supply is split into three tiers: base, intermediate, and peak load. Baseload is a permanent minimum amount of electricity that is required at all times and is met by predictable, long-running power sources, usually coal-fired plants. Intermediate power plants are more flexible and can vary output to suit the needs of the grid, but at a cost to the system operator. These include nuclear, hydroelectric and gas/diesel combined cycle turbine plants. Finally, peak power generators are called upon to meet short-term spikes of requirement and as such must be able to start up and provide power instantaneously.
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