Sir lastnail wrote on Sep 18
th, 2018 at 4:08pm:
Ah that baseload buzzword thrown around by the conservatives everytime they want to bag renewables
So tell me do they need power at all times at all hospitals? That is a part of baseload power. Baseload power is the amount of power that is needed at any one time. Streetlights? Getting up to see to a kid in the middle of the night? Can renewables guarantee that supply? That is dispatchable power. Forget about the actual generation method, to what use is that generation to be put.
I can't help it if you can't think for yourself but regurgitate crap.
" “The baseload, that is the lowest load on the generators, is met at 4 a.m.,” Vassallo continues. “At that time of the day the idea is that the cheap fuel generators, the coal-fired generators, would be ticking over, just meting that minimum demand." "
That minimum demand is baseload power for that time.
"Vassallo says today’s electricity generation technology is so flexible it doesn’t need a ‘baseload’. There is no need to keep huge coal-fired stations ticking over 24/7."
So at night when the wind don't blow?
Or perhaps you have a different definition of what baseload power would consist. Feel free to enlighten us.