How to Use baseload in a Sentence

baseload

noun

• This is known as baseload cycling, and its cost ranges from $2 to $23 per megawatt-hour.
  — Randy Simmons, Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2015
• And the race has been on to find a suitable baseload fuel to supplement wind and solar.
  — Kirk Siegler, NPR, 8 May 2024
• The big problem was the loss of power from conventional baseload power plants.
  — Robert Rapier, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
• As a geothermal plant, Project Red is, by design, baseload power.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2023
• Which proponents of the law say are necessary in order to provide stable baseload power to the grid.
  — Dave Forest, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2017
• Closing baseload power plants can create a gap, said Rampal.
  — Will Wade, Bloomberg.com, 31 Aug. 2020
• German baseload power prices for January rose more than 7%.
  — Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2021
• Most experts agree that baseload power that can be turned on 24/7 is necessary moving forward.
  — WIRED, 3 Aug. 2023
• Is the public then ready for fusion energy, which could supply the world with affordable, abundant, safe and clean baseload power?
  — Wal Van Lierop, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• Their short-term energy needs require a natural gas baseload in most of Western Europe.
  — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 4 May 2022
• Moreover, claims by countries such as Kenya that coal is needed for baseload power are unconvincing.
  — The Economist, 27 July 2019
• Natural gas can provide residential heating and serves as baseload in countries like the US.
  — Baker Institute, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• Bitcoin miners provide a unique source of baseload demand which can be quickly curtailed to free up electricity for other users on the grid.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Feb. 2024
• But that is the same system that abjectly failed to create the needed market signals for these very companies to build new baseload capacity for a full decade now.
  — David Blackmon, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• In general, solar and wind can fulfil load following but cannot provide baseload or inertia.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 16 June 2024
• Last week, France hit a record-high baseload electricity price of 645 euros per megawatt hour, meaning that electricity demand is beginning to eclipse supply in the country.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 25 July 2022
• The very nature of baseload energy is a topic that's debated within the energy industry.
  — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2017
• Nuclear power plants supply huge and steady amounts of zero-emission baseload power to electricity grids, and the Taishan plant, located in coastal Guangdong about 80 miles southwest of Hong Kong, is one of the world’s largest.
  — Jill Baker, Forbes, 17 June 2021
• Yet in 2016, according to a Western Interstate Energy Board analysis, only a small handful of plants spent more than half the year in baseload operation.
  — Jonathan Thompson, New Republic, 21 Sep. 2017
• To be clean and reliable, the grid will also need to include power plants that can provide baseload power, such as new nuclear or geothermal generators.
  — Kassia Yanosek, Foreign Affairs, 29 Nov. 2023
• Those plants, often referred to as baseload, have been the country’s primary source of power for decades, raising questions about how reliably the nation’s grid would function if those plants shrink to become only a minor source of power.
  — Timothy Puko, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
• The underlying point is that the world needs baseload power to supplement solar, especially power that can meet ramping electric-car demand and displace coal.
  — William Levin, National Review, 15 Dec. 2020
• Egypt’s long-term energy strategy boils down to a gradual buildup of renewables while natural gas continues to provide the baseload of the country’s energy mix.
  — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 9 Nov. 2021
• The problem with that argument is that the open-market system has miserably failed to send the price signals necessary to encourage the building of new baseload generating capacity for well over a decade now.
  — David Blackmon, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• And contrary to the claims of many greens, when nuclear plants shut down, they are being replaced by fossil fuels, not renewables, This is in large part because nuclear remains our only source of low-emission baseload power.
  — Jeremy Carl, National Review, 3 Aug. 2017
• Many advocates argue that in light of the threat of climate change and the increasing need for carbon-free baseload electricity generation, nuclear power should play a role in the world’s future energy mix.
  — Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2021
• Energy storage would have to cost $10 to $20/kWh for a wind-solar mix with storage to be competitive with a nuclear power plant providing baseload electricity.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Sep. 2019
• For all its risks, nuclear remains a crucial source of low-carbon-emission baseload electric power, accounting for 18% of the advanced industrial world’s total electricity supply, and 10% of the world’s.
  — Charles Lane, Twin Cities, 5 June 2019
• System costs, for example, are much lower for nuclear since the cost for intermittent renewables to meet baseload demand is significant.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 11 Feb. 2024
• But what this bill does not do is anything to mandate or incentivize the construction of additional reserve baseload power generating capacity in the Texas market.
  — David Blackmon, Forbes, 19 May 2021

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024