Combined Cycle Power Plant (CCPP) is a power plant that uses a gas turbine to drive an electrical generator, and recovers waste heat from the turbine exhaust to generate steam. The steam from waste heat is run through a steam turbine to provide supplemental electricity. Combining two or more thermodynamic cycles improves overall efficiency, which reduces fuel costs.
Reference Definition by Energy.gov: Combined Cycle Power Plant (CCPP) is a power plant that uses two thermodynamic cycles to achieve higher overall system efficiency; e.g.: the heat from a gas-fired combustion turbine is used to generate steam for heating or to operate a steam turbine to generate additional electricity.
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