Conventional power plant
As a conventional power plants are power plants which designates, "conventional" , ie conventional / hergebrachte energy sources and technologies used. Although the term is not firmly defined, it tends to mean large power plants, in contrast to smaller, decentralized power plants.
- Fossil power plants ( coal , oil and gas power plants ) are generally considered conventional .
- From the perspective of renewable energy , nuclear power plants are also counted among the conventional ones, but not from the perspective of nuclear technology.
- Borderline cases from the perspective of renewable energies are large hydropower plants ; Although they use renewable energy, they are often considered conventional because the technology is very old and the facilities are very large.
- A conventional power plant as a generic term for any non-nuclear power plant.
- A further definition describes such power plants as "conventional", which correspond to the usual construction schemes for this type of power plant. According to this definition, a wind power plant with three rotor blades and a horizontal axis is a conventional wind power plant and a pressurized water reactor is a conventional nuclear power plant.
- Conventional power plant can mean a thermal power plant without heat extraction, so it is in contrast to a thermal power plant .
Individual evidence
- ↑ As used in: René Flosdorff , Günther Hilgarth: Electrical energy distribution . 4th edition. BG Teubner, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-519-46411-X .