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Merit order, a Common card
The merit order is a way of ranking available sources of energy, especially electrical generation, based on ascending order of price and sometimes pollution, together with amount of energy that will be generated.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 37
- Power
- 100
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 12,000
Power 100 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Merit order quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Merit order card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Dispatching power generation in this way, known as economic dispatch, minimizes the cost of production of ______.
Answer
electricity. Dispatching power generation in this way, known as economic dispatch, minimizes the cost of production of electricity. From the Merit order article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
François Jacob. François Jacob 66 · Merit order 63 · Carl Ferdinand Cori 60 · Ubuntu 56 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In a centralized management scheme, the ranking is such that those with the lowest marginal costs are the first sources to be brought online to meet demand, and the plants with the highest marginal costs are the last to be brought on line.
- Dispatching power generation in this way, known as economic dispatch, minimizes the cost of production of electricity.
- Sometimes generating units must be started out of merit order, due to transmission congestion, system reliability or other reasons.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Merit order article was read about 12,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 37: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
How to get Merit order
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Merit order in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Kathryn C. ThorntonCommon · Science · ATK 60 DEF 40
- Kingston, WashingtonCommon · Society · ATK 61 DEF 39
- Leo V of ArmeniaCommon · History · ATK 58 DEF 42
- Nick FreemanCommon · Society · ATK 59 DEF 41
- Thomas CampbellCommon · Arts · ATK 60 DEF 40
- Thomas KlestilCommon · History · ATK 60 DEF 40
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Merit order (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Copyright held by Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA), Bonn, Germany. The site terms of use state ", CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
