generating plant
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The solar plant also is sited next to a soon-to-be-finished 80-megawatt/320-megawatt-hour battery storage bank and Calpine’s existing 750-megawatt natural gas-fired combined-cycle generating plant, which company officials described as a “trifecta” of energy reliability.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026
In September 1963, President John F. Kennedy stood behind a podium in front of more than 30,000 people in south central Washington to break ground on the most powerful fission-heated generating plant of its time.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2021
Florida Power & Light imploded the towering chimney stack of its last coal-fired generating plant on Wednesday, a milestone in its transition to cleaner energy sources.
From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2021
The earth/ground connection closest to the power source could be at the generating plant, while the other is at the user’s location.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
The Quartermaster began an investigation and this was what he found: The post had been supplied with electricity from a generating plant located on a river about ten miles away.
From "And they thought we wouldn't fight" by Gibbons, Floyd
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