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Peaking Plant

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-020437

Plants (often combustion turbines with low capital cost and high or very high fuel costs) used sparingly (often only a handful of times a year during extreme peak periods of demand).

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-020437
FieldEnvironment
ReferencesDOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory Glossary
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-020437",
  "term": "Peaking Plant",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "Plants (often combustion turbines with low capital cost and high or very high fuel costs) used sparingly (often only a handful of times a year during extreme peak periods of demand).",
  "references": [
    "DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/peaking-plant/"
}

Record 20,437 of 30,736 in Environment terminology (MLC-0121). Request the full dataset.