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Gas turbine (Brayton cycle) thermal plants require around 15-30 minutes to startup.Coal thermal plants based on steam turbines (Rankine cycle) are dispatchable sources that require hours to startup.

The combined cycle power plants consist of few stages with varying startup times with more than 8 hours required to get to full power from cold state:
* the gas turbine

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