generating plant

Cultural  

1. 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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Example Sentences

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

That water would then pass through a conventional hydroelectric generating plant as it returned to the sea.

From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2022

Like a generating plant, plants and animals also must take in energy from the environment and convert it into a form that their cells can use.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

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

An important factor in the estimation of the relative advantages of electricity and acetylene in such cases is the cost of labour in looking after the generating plant.

From Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by Leeds, F. H. (Frank Henley)