baseload

noun

base·​load ˈbās-ˌlōd 

: the amount of power made available by an energy producer (such as a power plant) to meet fundamental demands by consumers

—often used before another noun

baseload power

Wind and solar have the drag of unreliability. Unless attached to costly batteries they are useless for meeting baseload demand.

—Jonathan Fahey

Examples of baseload in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

South Fork, our first offshore wind project, runs baseload power most of the time. —Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2026

Gas peakers — plants designed for short, high-output bursts — are now being co-located with data center campuses specifically to absorb these inference spikes that baseload plants can’t respond to fast enough. —Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 24 Apr. 2026

But these energy sources, on their own, won’t be able to replace baseload fossil fuel generation. —Julius Cesar Trajano, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026

Solar plants and wind farms do not address baseload power. —March 8, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026

Word History

Etymology

base entry 1 + load entry 1

First Known Use

1907, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for baseload

• afterload
• episode
• internode
• microcode
• multimode
• nematode
• nesselrode
• overflowed
• overload
• overrode
• radioed
• torpedoed