Talk:Peaking power plant

The renaming of the article
Hang on a minute - why did this article get renamed from Peaker plant to Peaking power plant? I work in the power industry in the US, and Peaker Plant is the industry standard term.

Got any good rational before reverts start to kick in? -Mr.Logic 19:09, 5 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I'm not the one who renamed it but I'd *ASSUME* that it was renamed to be more-accessible to folks who aren't involved with U.S. Power Industry jargon. Remember, there will automatically be created a redirect that still lets insiders find the article via "Peaker plant".


 * Atlant 19:53, 5 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I added a little "also known as" line. Between that and the redirect, I'm happy. I'm still curious hear the thinking behind the change.
 * Mr.Logic 17:21, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

load following and peakers
This article seems to collapse two different things into one: peaker plants and load following plants (as described in this wikipedia article). I live in Chicago and I know we have at least two coal plants used as peakers (used in the summer to raise the power supply well above the base load demands in the winter and meet the summer air-conditioning load). So that seems to be using coal plants as peakers while they have a natural gas plant for load following (throughout the year). Any thoughts? Indexheavy (talk) 03:20, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Coal plants to meet the summer air-conditioning load? Producing heat to fight heat? That is horrendous. Put solar panels or your roofs! --82.113.113.82 (talk) 17:01, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

Reply
If you are referring to the Crawford and Fisk coal generating stations, they are base-load suppliers, not peakers. Both plants used to have gas turbines on sight that operated as peakers, but the ones at Crawford have been removed. I do not know if Fisk still runs them. In any case, in Chicago, base-load power is supplied by nuclear and coal plants and coal plants do most of the load following for economic reasons. Gas turbines are used as peakers for the most part. This is the result of high gas prices in the midwest (transport costs are high). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.135.76.236 (talk) 14:56, 9 July 2010 (UTC)