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megawatt

[ meg-uh-wot ]

noun

Electricity.
  1. a unit of power, equal to one million watts. : MW


megawatt

/ ˈɛɡəˌɒ /

noun

  1. one million watts MW
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

megawatt

  1. A unit of power: one million watts . A typical large electrical generating plant can produce a thousand megawatts of electricity .
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of megawatt1

First recorded in 1895–1900; mega- + watt
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It proposes building 2,500 megawatts of power generation — about 20 times what Gaza had before the war — including solar, wind, and fossil-fuel generation.

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And now, filmmaker Gia Coppola has constructed a dreamy character piece around Anderson and her dizzy megawatt grin.

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“The young Republicans may be looking at the cost per megawatt hour, and the young Democrats are looking at a different number: parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere.”

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The town also knew that those wind turbines on the campus made sense because they were big when they were built, like 1.65 megawatts each.

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Executives at Avantus say the company is following development rules set by the state and Kern County as they construct the 2,300-acre project, which is planned to produce 530 megawatts of renewable energy.

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