"peaker plant" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: peaker plants [plural]
Etymology: peak + plant. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|peak|plant}} peak + plant Head templates: {{en-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. Wikipedia link: Peaking power plant
    Sense id: en-peaker_plant-en-noun-f9FLTmwf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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