How to Use power plant in a Sentence

power plant

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  • The power plant is installed in a vast cavernous space.
    — Stanley Reed Matilde Viegas, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Is Ohio’s air about to get cleaner with the closure of an old coal power plant?
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Though the city revolved around two of the biggest power plants on the Volga, all its roads were dark.
    — Elettra Pauletto, Harper's Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
  • For decades, Vistra leased the land to Texas at no cost and used the lake as a cooling reservoir for a power plant.
    — Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The electric car might still one day become a power plant on wheels.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Mar. 2023
  • On the southwest edge of town, the power plant and mine punctuate the grasslands where deer and elk roam.
    — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Still that’s a lot of carbon going into the air—and a lot of cash the power plants are paying for allowances.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 13 July 2023
  • The emissions would actually be closer to a fifth of those from the power plant.
    — oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Most coal from the Kemmerer mine, in contrast, heads to the adjacent power plant.
    — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Last February, the Chernobyl power plant fell under the control of the Russian army.
    — Monique Brouillette, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2023
  • An American flag flutters over the small power plant, 200 miles upstream of Hells Canyon.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The Blue Lagoon uses excess water from the power plant and was closed when the eruption began.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Humans could choose to burn coal in a power plant to heat the water into steam and spin a generator.
    — Noah Gordon, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
  • When MotoGP went completely to a completely four-stroke power plant in 2003, there was a new and very flashy player in the game.
    — Peter Jackson, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2023
  • As part of the settlement, SDG&E agreed to remove the old power plant and its 400-foot-tall smokestack, which many people saw as an eyesore.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2023
  • So building more power plants means more profit for the company.
    — Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The steel tube containing Caesium-137 went missing from a power plant in the Prachin Buri province, where it was used for ash measurements.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The three concrete smokestacks, which were part of a Pacific Gas and Electric power plant built in the 1950s, have been replaced here by beer bottles.
    — Jerry Rice, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Israel cut power to Gaza after Hamas attacked, and Gaza’s sole power plant ran out of fuel on Oct. 11.
    — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2023
  • In the Great Lakes, zebra mussels are clogging the intake pipes of drinking water systems and power plants.
    — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The dispute over the open-pit mine led to some of Panama’s most widespread protests in recent years, including a blockade of the mine’s power plant, according to the AP.
    — Elida Moreno, Valentine Hilaire, and Divya Rajagopal, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Luckily, the eruption so far has not been in main part of Grindavík, the Blue Lagoon or the geothermal power plant nearby.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
  • In 1980, the crate containing the man’s body had been pulled from a grate preventing debris from flowing into the Lockport Locks power plant.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Given the typical life span of power plants and the fact that no new coal plants have been built in over a decade, that will likely cover the majority of coal plants in the US.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 May 2023
  • Even so, some lava did flow west toward a power plant and the Blue Lagoon, a famous geothermal spa.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Along the waterfront there is still a large fossil fuel power plant — natural gas now, the coal is gone — and there is a trash-to-energy plant that burns garbage.
    — Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The resulting two-stage power plant is at least 25 percent more efficient than a single-stage plant.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Jan. 2023
  • At the same time, the rest of the world has begun using ever more gas — in power plants, factories and homes — partly to move away from dirtier fuels like coal.
    — Max Bearak, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The power plant north of Oceanside was closed after a radiation leak sparked by a flawed plan to replace the steam generators.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2023
  • It was presumably meant to hit a neighboring thermal power plant, but overshot, exploding in a flash of brick and steel.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023

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