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battery farms

  • plural
    of battery farm.
    battery farm
    noun
    an energy storage facility where batteries are kept to provide power to an electrical network.

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Highest demand is expected to be at half-time and full-time, and Neso said its control room was ready to use technologies such as battery farms and pumped hydro storage schemes to keep the system balanced.

From BBC Jun. 6, 2026

Developers say the two huge neighbouring battery farms - one at the site of a former opencast coal mine - will store enough electricity to power three million homes.

From BBC Jan. 8, 2025

The welfare of chickens kept in battery farms naturally suffered.

From Salon Mar. 14, 2023

If it makes you shiver, if it makes you think of the battery farms in The Matrix or the hatcheries in Brave New World, you are not alone.

From Slate Jan. 30, 2020

They are little more than battery farms for the hopeful western parents who courier embryos to Mumbai for the surrogates to carry for nine months.

From The Guardian Jan. 26, 2013

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