megawatt
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- noun
- /ˈmɛɡəˌwɑt/
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megavatio
- This 800-megawatt plant generates enough electricity... to meet the needs of a city of three-quarters of a million people.
- megawatt power
- megawatt reactor
- megawatt turbine
Examples
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But that is still about 1,100 pounds per megawatt hour for electricity from natural gas.
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Research indicates that three jobs are created for every installed megawatt of biomass.
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At the end of 2013, they had 11 megawatts of solar.
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By the end of 2014, more than 400 megawatts.
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By the end of last year, more than 800 megawatts.
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The dams also generate more than 4,400 megawatts of electricity, all in the United States.
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The Qinshan nuclear power plant in China consists of two 728-megawatt pressurized heavy water reactors.
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In addition, Yorkshire Environmental in Yorkshire, England, is planning a 10-megawatt wood-fuel power plant that uses TPS gasification technology.
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For almost two decades, The Geysers expanded impressively, reaching more than 2,000 megawatts (MW) of installed capacity by the mid-1980s.
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The new solar farm is expected to produce 200 megawatts of clean energy by next year.
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An amount of electricity equal to one million watts used for one hour
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Etymology
The word megawatt comes from the prefix mega-, meaning 'large' or 'a million', and watt, the unit of power named after engineer James Watt. So a megawatt is 'a million watts', which is why we use it to say how much power a plant or city can produce or needs.