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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
coal-fired
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
coal-fired/gas-fired power station
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
power
▪ It also stated that no new coal-fired power stations need to be ordered before 1990 or 1994.
▪ Motor vehicles and coal-fired power stations are held to be the main offenders.
▪ In a free market, polluting coal-fired power stations and unpopular nuclear ones should be less competitive because of rising environmental costs.
▪ Hydrocarbon smog from traffic; smoke from a coal-fired power station.
▪ Even a new cleaner generation of coal-fired power stations is 10 years away.
▪ Trees consume carbon dioxide emitted by coal-fired power stations and other sources.
▪ I have little doubt that it represents a future for coal-fired power generation in the next decade.
▪ Helped persuade the Government to spend £200m cleaning Britain's beaches and £600m cleaning aerial discharges from coal-fired power stations.
station
▪ This is because of the higher levels of carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired stations compared with natural gas.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wood-fired/gas-fired/coal-fired
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Additional generating capacity will be mainly coal-fired or hydro with some nuclear.
▪ Emissions from a gas-fired plant are about half those from a coal-fired one.
▪ Even a new cleaner generation of coal-fired power stations is 10 years away.
▪ Helped persuade the Government to spend £200m cleaning Britain's beaches and £600m cleaning aerial discharges from coal-fired power stations.
▪ I have little doubt that it represents a future for coal-fired power generation in the next decade.
▪ In 1981 a £30 million government scheme was launched to encourage industry to switch from oil and gas to coal-fired boilers.
▪ Motor vehicles and coal-fired power stations are held to be the main offenders.
▪ This is because of the higher levels of carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired stations compared with natural gas.

Usage examples of "coal-fired".

Among the chemicals found in the cord blood were methylmercury, produced by coal-fired power plants and certain industrial processes.

The sunken tub was steaming with clear, hot water brought in from coal-fired tanks that also provided some heat for the main floor, and there was a large bar of soap, a full supply of bath linen, and even a white towel-robe, imprinted with the symbol of the hotel.

But the radiation left from dropping a couple of billion megatons on that valley, and we don't have that much, more's the pity, will raise the background radiation of the Tennessee to that of, oh, living downwind of a coal-fired power plant.

Horton was cozily battened down for the winter, having installed snugly fitted storm windows and storm doors and having provided a huge supply of wood for the stone fireplace in the living room, which supplemented a coal-fired furnace.