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capacity factor

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capacity factor [kə′pas·əd·ē ‚fak·tər]
(industrial engineering)
The ratio of average actual use to the available capacity of an apparatus or industrial plant to store, process, treat, manufacture, or produce.


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Coal-fired plants set a company fleet record capacity factor of 87 percent, compared with the industry average of 72 percent.
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