Machine house

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The interior of the historic machine house of the Walchensee power plant .

A machine house (MH abbreviation), also known as a power house, is a building of a power plant to accommodate the large machines .

In the nacelle are turbines , generators , and in very old power plants and the control room housed and so before weathering protected. On the ceiling of the machine house there are one or two bridge cranes with the trolley , with the help of which the machine parts , which often weigh several hundred tons , can be assembled .

Especially in the early days of the supply of electrical energy , the power plant nacelles were architecturally designed to be particularly complex. Such powerhouses of historicism or art nouveau , if they have been preserved, are among the important industrial monuments .

The nacelles of wind turbines are also known as the nacelle. The term can be found analogously with ship lifts and related hydraulic engineering systems.