It is generally accepted that extracting and capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from a coal-fired electric power plant is cheaper than doing the same from a gas-fired power plant. This primarily is due to the higher CO2 concentrations in the coal exhaust stream. There also is emerging literature that establishes different economic decisions for adopting CO2 capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies for existing and future power plants. However, what is missing from both of these ideas is the fact that a baseload electric power plant faces a different set of economic trade-offs than either a peaking or intermediate-load plant does.