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Thermal power plants are not suitable for supplying base peak loads.

A. True

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To operate as peak load plant, a power plant must be able to meet sudden variation of load. The major drawback of a steam power plant is that it requires appreciable time to start up, synchronize and take up load. Hence thermal power plant is not suitable to work as peak load plant.

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