Key:generator:plant

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Public-images-osm logo.svg generator:plant
Conventional power plant.png
Description
To specify which kind of power of a given power plant a generator is producing. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: power
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Documented values: 2
Useful combination
Status: approvedPage for proposal

In some complex power generation systems, several generators can be chain together to produce output power of a given power plant. It's useful to distinguish ones which produce intermediate power from those which effectively produce the output of the power plant.

It's optional

This distinguishing is actually optional. Mappers don't have to (but they are invited to) map intermediate generators since no consistency check may be done on them. The whole power plant output rating only depends on generator:plant=output generators which are the most common ones and pretty always exposed in public documentation.