発電所 – vocab dash

発はつ電でん所しょ

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Meanings

Noun

1. power plant; power station

Kanji used

Pitch accent

はつでんしょ

Composed of

generation of electricity; power generation; sending a telegram (now usu. for congratulations, condolences, etc.); telegraphing

Noun

counter for places (offices, facilities, stations)

Suffix

Used in vocabulary

thermal power station (i.e. using combustion)

Noun

nuclear power plant; nuclear power station

Noun

hydroelectric plant or power station

Noun

wind farm; windfarm; wind power station

Noun

floating nuclear power station

Noun

coal-fired power plant

Noun

geothermal power plant; geothermal power station

Noun

geothermal power plant; geothermal power station

Noun

Examples3

この発はつ電でん所しょだけで数すう個この市しに電でん力りょくを供きょう給きゅうしている。

This power station alone provides several cities with electricity.

環かん境きょう汚お染せんについての恐おそれは、人ひと々びとに発はつ電でん所しょの近ちかくに家いえを建たてることを思おもいとどまらせた。

Fear of pollution discouraged people from building homes near power plants.

その発はつ電でん所しょは、その遠とおく離はなれた郡ぐんに電でん気きを供きょう給きゅうしている。

The power plant supplies the remote district with electricity.