generating station
Example Sentences
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Rader’s father, who died in 1996 after retiring as a plant operator at a utility company’s generating station, was described by childhood pals as strict but never cruel, the New York Times reported.
From Fox News ● Jan. 8, 2022
The coal-fired generating station opened in 1982 and closed in May 2018.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 11, 2020
The electricity would be ferried to Southern California through a 488-mile transmission line, built in the 1980s to transmit energy from Intermountain Power Plant, which is now the last coal-fired generating station serving California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2019
Sutton Lake is the former cooling pond for a coal-fired plant Duke retired in 2013 and replaced with a new generating station running off natural gas.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2018
The cataract of Saint-Jean-les-Eaux plunged between pinnacles of rock at the eastern end of a spur of the Alps, and the generating station clung to the side of the mountain above it.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
