Saturday, January 14, 2012

Average electric power plant generation in MW is what?

This is a hard question. I understand the difference between peak power, average power, energy and power, that the average US home consumes 1.4kw electrical 'energy' (power), that the world average is roughly 1 kW/home, that the average home has 1-4 people in it, that biom /gas power plants are roughly 35MW, that a nuclear power plant (electric power generating) is roughly 1000-2000M (ie. able to provide electricity to about 800k-1600k homes. But all of this is from snippets over the years...is there an 'authoritative' answer to how much power an 'average' electric power plant (modern or historic) produces, and how much an "average" US person and/or household consumes? My suspicion is that there's too much variance in the power plants--that is, there's no such thing as a true average (power plants come in all shapes and sizes). The thesis, before I began to study the problem, was that there was a handful (five or six) power plants in every average state --wrong!. Tx! Ray

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