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installed capacity

 
 
noun [C or U]

Definition

the amount of energy that a power station, etc. is able to produce: The installed capacity of electricity increased by 21 per cent during the first nine months of the current fiscal year.
(Definition of installed capacity noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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