Baseload power is delivered at a steady rate around the clock, while diesel is more suited to meeting spikes in demand.

基载电力需要全天候地稳定传输，而柴油机发电更能顺应急剧上升的供应需求。

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The company's semiconductors manage and control or regulate power, protect against transient voltage spikes and transmit, receive and amplify signals.

公司的产品用于管理， 控制或调整电源动力，防止瞬态电压尖峰，发送，接受和放大信号。

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Big batteries like these could simply store power, but they could also be useful in smoothing out the bigger spikes and troughs in electricity production that these intermittent sources create.

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Longer term, were we served by more renewable power generators (wind, solar) we would be better protected against unpredictable price spikes in oil and gas markets that may come when political winds blow in an unexpected direction.

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Those demand spikes are unavoidable mini-disasters for energy companies -- their own grid doesn't have the power on hand, and the utility has to buy it elsewhere -- competing with other utilities trying to keep the lights on for their customers.

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