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How do you refer to a power generation station that derives its energy from burning oil, rather than coal?
I looked up "oil plant", on onelook.com, thinking that it'd also be used to mean a place where oil is refined, but instead I ended up on Wikipedia's page on vegetable oil, indicating yet another meaning of "oil plant".
I believe the conventional terms are "coal-fired power plant" and "oil-fired power plant". You can drop the "power", especially if the context is clear, and just say "coal-fired plant" and "oil-fired plant". See, e.g. http://www.power-technology.com/projects/shoaiba/.
