The term 'mega plant' is not really a common English phrase, so it would not be recommended to use it in written English without context.
However, it could be used as a more casual way to refer to an industrial plant or a power plant. For example, "The new construction project is a mega plant that will generate a huge amount of electricity."
And when the Tata Ultra Mega plant in western India is fully serviceable in 2012, its annual carbon dioxide emissions are expected to total 23.4 million tons.
Low-pressure RO membrane for seawater desalination has been studied in the project as a part of the core technologies to realize mega plant that is capable of producing 1,000,000 m3 of freshwater per day.
Low pressure RO membrane for seawater desalination has been studied in the project as a part of the core technologies to realize mega plant which is capable of producing 1,000,000 m3 of freshwater per day.
Last summer, while the masses huddled, wan and pasty, in the "Shade" section of the Brooklyn Botanical Garden's annual mega-plant sale, I skipped giddily, checkbook open, through "Full Sun".
Blaming the situation on a lack of generation capacity and an unreliable supply of coal to its existing power plants, Eskom began pulling mothballed plants into action and accelerated the commissioning of the mega-plants, Medupi and Kusile.
"Most of the industry consists of mega-plants, but we could be seeing the beginning of a whole new concept - manufacturing modules of 30,000 to 50,000 units each," said David Cole, head of automotive studies at the University of Michigan.
The first phase of First Solar's mega-plant, 30 mw of panels, will begin construction in June 2010.
While most of the country was focused on the final stages of the engrossing coal gate scandal, the court handed down a new verdict in response to pleas for a bailout from the Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Plant (UMPP and other coal-fired power plants struggling with rising coal import prices.
In 2008, it announced a $450m loan for the 4,000 megawatt Tata Mundra "ultra mega power plant" near the port town of Mundra in Gujarat.
Lauri Myllyvirta, a senior global coal campaigner with Greenpeace, said: "the systematic violations, in a mega power plant in the middle of China's most important economic centre and the failure by the regulator to effectively intervene illustrate the challenge that China faces in controlling emissions from its massive coal industry".
The firm says the 100 mega watt plant would generate enough electricity to power 200,000 homes and produce 720,000 tonnes less carbon each year than a similar sized coal-fired power station.
