power plant
noun
1
: an electric utility generating station
2
: an engine and related parts supplying the motive power of a self-propelled object (such as a rocket or automobile)
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The Electrolux site seemed ideal to xAI: in an industrial zone, proximate to a power plant and a wastewater facility.
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Andrew R. Chow, Time, 13 Aug. 2025
There may be a current bottleneck on gas turbines for building power plants, but manufacturing is ramping up and most of the hyperscalers’ projects are a few years from coming online.
—Jordan Blum, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2025
Tiny metal particulates released into the air from factories, power plants and vehicles across the Midwest and Canada can travel thousands of miles on the wind and fall with rain.
—Aubrey Hillman, The Conversation, 8 Aug. 2025
While capacity markets were originally designed with on-demand, dispatchable power plants in mind, like natural gas or coal, renewables and batteries can and do participate.
—Anna Broughel, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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Andrew R. Chow, Time, 13 Aug. 2025
There may be a current bottleneck on gas turbines for building power plants, but manufacturing is ramping up and most of the hyperscalers’ projects are a few years from coming online.
—Jordan Blum, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2025
Tiny metal particulates released into the air from factories, power plants and vehicles across the Midwest and Canada can travel thousands of miles on the wind and fall with rain.
—Aubrey Hillman, The Conversation, 8 Aug. 2025
While capacity markets were originally designed with on-demand, dispatchable power plants in mind, like natural gas or coal, renewables and batteries can and do participate.
—Anna Broughel, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for power plant
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“Power plant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/power%20plant. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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