Talk:Captive power plant

Captive = Prisoner
Hi, I have never heard the expression "captive power plant" before. Can some of you guys give me some background information where this comes from? When I read the explanation, I see rather the wording "self-" or "autoproducer", e.g. a company which needs both electricity and heat and therefore decides to run a gas fired ICE or turbine for it own energy demand to minimise costs by having a high-efficient CHP unit on site. Same is true for a solar system on the roof, which quite often produces cheaper electrical energy than the utility can offer via the public network. A captive power plant sounds like it is a prisoner to the surrounding load consumer cell (generator embedded in the end user load), which absorbs the autoproduced power. In the end we also talk about "prosumers" which are network users having both characteristics: load and generator, depending which sign (plus or minus) is the dominant one. Regards, --Gunnar (talk) 23:10, 6 June 2017 (UTC)