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• Engineering [r]: a branch of engineering that uses chemistry, biology, physics, and math to solve problems involving fuel, drugs, food, and many other products. ^[e]
• Electrical engineering [r]: the branch of engineering that deals with electricity and electromagnetism. ^[e]
• Electrical power [r]: Add brief definition or description

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• Biomass power plant [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Combined cycle power plant [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Combined cycle gas turbine power plant [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Coal-fired power plant [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Coal-fired power plant (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
  • Conventional coal-fired power plant [r]: power plant that burns coal in a steam generator to produce high pressure steam, which goes to steam turbines that generate electricity. ^[e]
  • Integrated gasification combined cycle power plant [r]: a.k.a. IGCC; uses coal to produce a synthetic gas that is burned to drive an electrical generator, while produced steam is used to drive another generator. See the Integrated gasification combined cycle article on Wikipedia. ^[e]
  • Fluidized bed combustion power plant [r]: burns coal in a fluidized bed; steam produced as a by-product also drives an electrical generator; see the Fluidized bed combustion article on Wikipedia ^[e]
  • Oxygen firing power plant [r]: a.k.a. Oxy firing plant, works like a conventional coal-fired power plant but uses oxygen instead of air to burn the coal; see the Oxy-fuel combustion process article on Wikipedia ^[e]

• Fossil fuel power plant [r]: An electrical power plant that converts the combustion heat energy derived from burning a fossil fuel, such as coal, natural gas or a petroleum fuel oil, into electricity. The combustion heat energy may be used to generate steam for a steam turbine that drives an electrical generator or it may be used directly in a gas turbine or internal combustion engine to drive an electric generator. ^[e]
• Gas turbine power plant [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Geothermal power plant [r]: An electrical power plant that extracts heat energy stored beneath Earth's surface and uses it to generate electricity. ^[e]
• Hydroelectric power plant [r]: An electrical power plant that generates electric power by converting the energy in falling or flowing water into electricity; water is directed through turbines which spin to generate electricity. ^[e]
• Integrated gasification combined cycle power plant [r]: a.k.a. IGCC; uses coal to produce a synthetic gas that is burned to drive an electrical generator, while produced steam is used to drive another generator. See the Integrated gasification combined cycle article on Wikipedia. ^[e]
• Natural gas-fired power plant [r]: An industrial plant which produces electricity by burning natural gas in a steam generator that heats water to produce high-pressure steam that flows through a series of steam turbines which spin an electrical generator to produce electricity. ^[e]
• Nuclear power plant [r]: A power plant, often electric, that uses the energy derived from controlled (non-explosive) nuclear reactions to generate electricity. Conventionally, nuclear power plants used the heat energy derived from nuclear fission to generate steam, which in turn generates electric power. ^[e]
• Oil-fired power plant [r]: An industrial plant which produces electricity by burning fuel oil in a steam generator that heats water to produce high-pressure steam that flows through a series of steam turbines which spin an electrical generator to produce electricity. ^[e]
• Solar power plant [r]: An electrical power plant that generates electricity directly from sunlight either by using photovoltaics or by focusing solar radiation into a concentrated beam of heat that is used to generate steam for conversion into electric power. ^[e]
• Thermal power plant [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tidal power plant [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Wind power plant [r]: Add brief definition or description

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• Power (physics) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Fossil fuel [r]: Add brief definition or description