RE: RE: RE: RE: Baseload vs Intermittent Terry,
A peaker plant is a plant connected to the grid which is only turned on during hours of peak demand. An off-grid plant would be considered a load following plant as it has to produce what ever the demand is. Remote off grid power is very expensive as trucked or flow diesel is the compition making most local sources potentially viable.
There very well could be a geothermal plant somewere in the world that is used a peaker but againt discussion started as the current economic viability of geothermal power in North America and I can garantee you that no geothermal plant will bebuilt as a peaker in NA.
Grid connected low temperature geothermal and EGS are not economic. Rasor tried with the UTC units (Thermo in Utah) and failed pretty badly.