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

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

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

An elongated tent of this description, covering a row of trees, may be filled with fumes from a position at the end of the row, where a generating plant on a trolley may be situated.

From Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast by Sutherland, George