generating plant
An installation that produces electric current (see also current) for commercial sale. In the United States, most electricity is generated from fossil fuels; some is generated by nuclear reactors.
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How to use generating plant in a sentence
They haven't learned enough yet to want to get the light-generating plant installed in their midst.
Quiet Talks with World Winners | S. D. GordonThe entire big plant is lighted by its own electric generating plant.
With the Doughboy in France | Edward HungerfordThe Al-Tahoe Company owns its own electric generating plant and supplies all the cottages with electric light.
The Lake of the Sky | George Wharton JamesIt includes a dark room, printing lantern, and light-generating plant.
America's Munitions 1917-1918 | Benedict CrowellAdditional buildings and machinery, together with a new generating-plant, are now being installed.
Our Navy in the War | Lawrence Perry
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