发电的英文是generate electricity、produce electric power。
1、新英格兰电力公司燃烧煤来发电。
The company，New England Electric，burns coal to generate power.
2、工厂应急发电机在停电期间用上了。
The factory's emergency generators were used during the power cut.
3、节能灯可减轻发电站的负荷。
An efficient bulb may lighten the load of power stations.
4、政府的当务之急是建造更多的发电厂。
The government's priority is to build more power plants.
5、他想出另一种发电的方法。
He thought of another way of making electricity.
6、该工程规划为国家电网发电约3千万瓦。
The project is designed to generate around 30 megawatts of power for the national grid.
7、我们需要开动一台发电机。
We need to fire up one of the generators.
8、没有新建的发电站，主要是因为经费问题。
No new power stations have been built,principally because of the cost.
9、应急发电机启动了。
Emergency generators cut in.
10、他想出了一个把旧发电站改造为艺术中心的主意。
He conceived the idea of transforming the old power station into an arts centre.
11、他把它放倒，连接好，然后我们让发电机开始运转。
He brought it down,hooked it up,and we got the generator going.
12、这座房子远离自来水总管和供电网，依靠自备的发电机。
The house is far from water mains and electricity and relies on its own generators.
13、发电站的积存如此多却还在生产更多的煤，这实在是荒谬。
It remains lunacy to produce yet more coal to add to power stations'stockpiles.
14、土耳其计划利用底格里斯河与幼发拉底河的水来建造大型水力发电工程。
Turkey plans to harness the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for big hydro-electric power projects.
15、现在有18个国家使用地热发电。
Eighteen countries now generate electricity using geothermal heat.