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Generation

Meaning in energy & renewables, with examples

/ˌdʒenəˈreɪʃən/nounCore term

In energy & renewables, generation means: The process of producing electricity, or the amount of electricity produced over a period, by power plants, solar panels, wind turbines and other sources.

In Turkish: üretim, elektrik üretimi

How it is used

Used for both the activity and the volume. You hear power generation, electricity generation, solar generation and generation capacity; energy companies have a generation business. The verb is generate: a plant generates electricity. Generation is measured in MWh or GWh.

Example sentences

  1. Wind generation was unusually low last week, so gas plants filled the gap.

  2. Our generation portfolio includes hydro, wind and solar assets.

Common collocations

  • power generation
  • electricity generation
  • generation capacity
  • distributed generation
  • generate electricity
  • power plantAn industrial facility that produces electricity on a large scale, for example by burning gas or coal, splitting atoms or using the energy of water, wind or sunlight.
  • installed capacityThe maximum power output that a power plant, or all the plants in a country, can deliver according to their design, usually given in MW or GW.
  • energy mixThe combination of energy sources, such as gas, coal, hydro, wind, solar and nuclear, that a country or company uses, usually shown as percentage shares.
  • capacity factorThe ratio of the electricity a plant actually produces over a period to what it would produce running at full capacity the whole time, shown as a percentage.

More terms: Power Generation and Power Plants

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