Meaning of Megawatt | Babel Free

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One million (1 000 000) watts, an amount of power large enough to power such things as an entire commercial building or a small passenger aircraft. (Consuming 1 megawatt during a duration of 1 hour consumes 1 megawatt-hour of energy.)

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“Holonyms: GW, gigawatt < TW, terawatt < PW, petawatt”

“Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt < kW, kilowatt”

“Not long after the feds started regulating radio, Mexico's megawatt border⟳ blasters—high-powered stations planted just south of Texas and California—started beckoning. The FCC couldn't control⟳ them […]”

“SAN FRANCISCO, July 23 — Pacific Gas & Electric, Northern California’s major utility, is announcing a commitment on Wednesday to purchase⟳ 550 megawatts of solar power to be generated by troughlike arrays of mirrors spread⟳ over nine square miles in the Mojave Desert.”

“In theory, the GERD could boost⟳ the region's economy [Horn of Africa and eastern North Africa]. At full capacity, it could generate⟳ close⟳ to 6,000 megawatts of electricity, double⟳ Ethiopia's entire output before the dam was built. Currently, just over 22% of the country's 122m people are connected to the grid. The dam could supply⟳ millions more with power, both in Ethiopia and through power deals with neighbouring countries. […] That will happen⟳ only if Ethiopia builds better transmission lines to connect⟳ more people to the grid and to send⟳ more power to its neighbours. At the moment the main beneficiaries of the power surplus generated by the dam are miners of cryptocurrencies. […] Their data centres, which have⟳ their own⟳ power lines, are expected to consume⟳ nearly a third of the country's electricity this year. Meanwhile, most electricity-deprived Ethiopians will probably have⟳ to wait⟳ years for their grid connection. At the current pace of expansion, the national power company expects just 27% of households to be connected by 2030, far off the national target⟳ of 96%.”

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