gigawatt
Noun
Meaning
gigawatt (plural gigawatts)
One thousand million (10) watts, abbreviated as GW.
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Examples
The heaviest vehicle to ever leave the ground, the Saturn V rocket, was powered by five F-1 rocket engines generating a combined 180 million horsepower citation (134.2 gigawatt).
In 2017 more than 1 gigawatt of PPA deals were signed in Europe resulting in the growth of the phenomenon.
If the total amount of energy could be converted to electrical power with 100% efficiency (a physical impossibility), it would correspond to about 30 minutes of output of a gigawatt electrical plant per mole of 3 He.
The lasers would have to operate for years continuously at gigawatt strength.
Energy from fossil fuels has been the lowest since 1986; this year it was only 23.73 gigawatt hours.
In just the past several years, the company has seen its megawatts (MWs) under management soar from 150 MW in 2017, to 250 in 2018, and to a little over a gigawatt (1,000 MWs) today.