power plant
noun
1
: an electric utility generating station
2
: an engine and related parts supplying the motive power of a self-propelled object (such as a rocket or automobile)
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The move, ordered by a Trump appointee, would affect thousands of industrial facilities across the country, including oil refineries, power plants and coal mines as well as those that make petrochemicals, cement, glass, iron and steel, according to documents reviewed by ProPublica.
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Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 10 Apr. 2025
Now, with many of these waterways blocked, the animals have increasingly found a winter refuge near power plants and other industrial facilities.
—Stephanie Hanes, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2025
And the activity of mining and the resulting coal ash from power plants pose environmental hazards.
—Lisa Friedman, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Zelenskyy said Russia had launched a drone attack at a thermal power plant in Ukraine's city of Kherson on Friday.
—Yuliia Dysa and Tom Balmforth, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
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Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 10 Apr. 2025
Now, with many of these waterways blocked, the animals have increasingly found a winter refuge near power plants and other industrial facilities.
—Stephanie Hanes, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2025
And the activity of mining and the resulting coal ash from power plants pose environmental hazards.
—Lisa Friedman, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Zelenskyy said Russia had launched a drone attack at a thermal power plant in Ukraine's city of Kherson on Friday.
—Yuliia Dysa and Tom Balmforth, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
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“Power plant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/power%20plant. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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