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Thermal Power Stations

  • 15-08-2011 04:59PM
    #1
    meogi3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭


    Hi,

    Quick query as regards thermal power stations. Can anyone define what small, medium and large thermal power stations in terms of there export capacity (MW) for me. I am not sure what they are.

    for example are they

    Small plants - anything up to 300MW
    Medium plants - 300MW to 1000MW
    Large Plants - 1000MW or above

    Many Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    shakeydude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭shakeydude


    Depends on what you are looking to define.

    Thermal stations can come in units as small as 100MW and are called Open Cycle Gas Turbines (OCGT)

    I think that you will find generators defined more often as baseload (400-1000MW CCGT for example), mid-merit (200-400MW) and peakers (100MW, OCGT)


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