Definition of "power plant" []

• All the equipment, including structural members, that constitutes a unit power source: the power plant of a truck. (noun)
• A complex of structures, machinery, and associated equipment for generating electric energy from another source of energy, such as nuclear reactions or a hydroelectric dam. Also called powerhouse, power station. (noun)

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• "In Singrauli, India, I met villagers who had been kicked off their land “involuntary resettlement,” in World Bank speak in order to make room for a World Bank–funded coal-fired power plant complex."
• "Steel magnate Navin Jindal is on a week-long visit to Bolivia to give a push to his plans of investing $ 2.1 billion in the next few years in mining and setting up an integrated 1.7 MTPA steel plant, a 6 MTPA sponge iron plant, a 10 MTPA iron ore pellet plant and a 450 mw power plant in the South American nation."
• "The recco on the tenth took him as far north as the Changjin Chosin Reservoir, where a British-owned power plant was a prime target, though the group would later learn of an agreement between London and Washington to keep the plant intact."