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Powerhouse Animation Studios

Powerhouse Animation Studios, Austin, Texas 2D animation studio founded 2001, known for Netflix's Castlevania, Blood of Zeus, Seis Manos, and Masters of the Universe; first-look Netflix deal 2021, Animation Guild contract 2024.

Powering Past Coal Alliance

The Powering Past Coal Alliance is a coalition, launched by Canada and the UK in Bonn in 2017, committed to phasing out unabated coal power by 2030 in OECD countries.

PowerJet SaM146

The PowerJet SaM146 is a turbofan engine developed by the French-Russian PowerJet joint venture of Safran and UEC Saturn to power the Sukhoi Superjet 100.

Powerless (novel)

Powerless (novel), Lauren Roberts debut YA romantasy published by Simon & Schuster November 7, 2023 after self-publishing; set in Ilya, where Ordinary Paedyn Gray poses as an Elite in the deadly Purging Trials alongside prince Kai Azer; first of a trilogy with a Prime Video adaptation.

Powerless (TV series)

Powerless (TV series): NBC single-camera workplace sitcom set in the DC Universe, developed by Ben Queen, starring Vanessa Hudgens at Wayne Security in Charm City; aired February to May 2017, canceled after one season.

Powerlifting

Powerlifting: strength sport of the squat, bench press, and deadlift; IPF founded 1973, equipped vs classic split since 2012, injury rate 1.0-4.4 per 1,000 training hours.

Powerman 5000

Powerman 5000 (PM5K), Boston electro-metal and nu metal band fronted by Spider One (Michael Cummings), Rob Zombie's younger brother; platinum 1999 album Tonight the Stars Revolt!, hits When Worlds Collide and Bombshell.

Powermat Technologies

Powermat Technologies is an Israeli wireless-charging company founded by Ran Poliakine in 2006 and headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel, whose patents are largely standard-essential to the Qi wireless-charging standard.

PowerNerd

PowerNerd is Devin Townsend's 2024 solo album on InsideOut Music, written in 11 days, recorded after his planned lineup collapsed, with Darby Todd on drums; first of a four-album cycle. Not the Viennese synthwave artist Powernerd.

PowerPC

PowerPC is a RISC microprocessor architecture created in 1991 by the Apple, IBM, and Motorola alliance, debuting in Apple's Power Macintosh in 1993 and surviving today as the Power ISA.

PowerPlan

PowerPlan is an Atlanta, Georgia software company founded in 1994 that makes accounting, tax, budgeting, and analytics software for asset-intensive businesses such as utilities, railroads, and pipelines; Roper Technologies acquired it in 2018 for $1.1 billion.

Powerplant Ventures

Powerplant Ventures, later known as PowerPlant Partners, is a California venture capital firm founded in 2015 that invests in plant-based and better-for-you food companies like Beyond Meat.

Powerplay (cricket)

Powerplay (cricket): fielding-restriction phases in ODIs and T20s limiting fielders outside the 30-yard circle; T20 first 6 overs with 2 outside, ODI phases 2/4/5, no-ball penalty.

Powerpuff Girls Z

Powerpuff Girls Z (Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z, 出ましたっ!パワパフガールズZ) is a 52-episode 2006-2007 Japanese magical girl anime by Toei Animation, Aniplex, and Cartoon Network Japan, reimagining the Powerpuff Girls as transforming 13-year-old heroines in Tokyo City.

Powers (comics)

Powers is a creator-owned superhero-noir comic by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, debuting from Image Comics in 2000, following detectives Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, an Eisner-winning series adapted for PlayStation Network and revived as Powers 25 at Dark Horse.

Powers Boothe

Powers Boothe (1948–2017) was an American character actor from Snyder, Texas, Emmy winner for Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones, known for Cy Tolliver in Deadwood, Curly Bill in Tombstone, Senator Roark in Sin City, and Gideon Malick in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Powers of the president of the United States

Powers of the president of the United States: the Article II authorities of the U.S. presidency, including commander in chief role, pardons, appointments, treaties, veto, executive orders, removal power, and their checks.

Powers of the United States Congress

Powers of the United States Congress: the Article I legislative, taxing, spending, war, territorial, oversight, and structural powers of the Senate and House, plus constitutional limits such as enumerated powers, bicameralism, and judicial review.

PowerShell

PowerShell, also known as Windows PowerShell, is a Microsoft command-line shell and scripting language for task automation whose commands pass structured .NET objects through its pipeline.

Powerslave

Powerslave is Iron Maiden's fifth studio album, released 3 September 1984 on EMI, produced by Martin Birch at Compass Point Studios, Bahamas; Egyptian-themed record with Eddie-as-pharaoh cover, "Aces High," "2 Minutes to Midnight," and the Coleridge-based "Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

Powersort

Powersort is a stable, run-adaptive mergesort algorithm presented at ESA 2018 that finds a nearly optimal merge order for the sorted runs already present in its input.

PowerSouth Energy Cooperative

PowerSouth Energy Cooperative is a generation and transmission electric cooperative headquartered in Andalusia, Alabama. Founded in 1941, it wholesales power to 18 cooperatives and four municipal systems.

Powerton Generating Station

Powerton Generating Station is a coal-fired power plant in Pekin, Illinois, owned by NRG Energy, with about 1,538 MW of capacity from two units opened in 1972 and 1975.

Powertrain

A powertrain is the set of components in a vehicle that generates power and delivers it to the wheels, spanning engine, transmission, driveshaft, axles, and differential in a conventional car.

PowerUp Technology

PowerUp Technology Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated software company based in the Arlington and Vienna, Virginia area, which raised about $277 million across eight SEC-exempt offerings from 2018 to 2024.

Powervation

Powervation was an Irish fabless semiconductor company, spun out of the University of Limerick in 2006 and later based in Cork, that made digital power-management chips for data centers.

Powerviolence

Powerviolence is an extreme hardcore punk subgenre from late-1980s California, defined by sub-minute songs, blast beats, and abrupt shifts from over 200 BPM to sludge. Key bands: Infest, No Comment, Spazz, Man Is the Bastard; term coined by Neanderthal in 1989.

PowerVR

PowerVR is a family of graphics processor designs licensed as intellectual property by the UK company Imagination Technologies, begun in 1992 and spanning more than 14 generations.

PowerWash Simulator 2

PowerWash Simulator 2, also called PWS2, is FuturLab's cozy cleaning simulation sequel released 23 October 2025 for PC, Xbox Series X|S, PS5 and Switch 2, with 38 career jobs, 4-player shared-progression co-op, and OpenCritic score 84.

Powerwolf

Powerwolf is a German heavy metal band formed around 2004, fronted by Romanian classically trained vocalist Attila Dorn, known for werewolf and religious-history lyrics, church organ, corpse paint, German chart-topping albums, and 2026 Wembley Arena and Wacken headlining shows.