peaker plant

English

Etymology

peak + plant.

Noun

peaker plant (plural peaker plants)

  1. An electric power station used to rapidly generate power to prevent brownouts when demand rapidly increases, exceeding supply and the ability of baseload power generation stations to ramp up the supply of electricity.
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