Examples of megawatt in a Sentence
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By 2045, the state plans to have 52,000 megawatts online.
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Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2024
The goal is to have industrial scale turbines of 15 to 20 megawatts each, Dr. Dagher said.
—David Sharp and Jennifer McDermott, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2024
As part of Newsom’s energy road map, lithium-ion batteries are being added to the state’s electric grid at a rapid rate, with companies creating the infrastructure for the first several thousand megawatts over the last few years and making plans to install many times more over the next two decades.
—Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024
The entire system in operation consumed about 1.7 megawatts of power.
—Benj Edwards, WIRED, 2 May 2024
New York is one of the country’s largest data center markets, with around 800 megawatts of capacity currently online, much of it catering to finance and tech companies who depend on nearby computing capacity to build and trade around the clock.
—Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 12 May 2024
Biden, who landed at Moffett Field on Thursday evening, planned to meet and greet Silicon Valley’s tech elite at two megawatt fundraisers on Friday: one in Portola Valley at the home of venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, and the other with former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer in Palo Alto.
—Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 10 May 2024
For power usage in excess of 10 megawatts a month, crypto mines will be fined $100,000.
—Neal Earley, arkansasonline.com, 11 Apr. 2024
In the six months since the 2023 annular eclipse, California ISO reports the amount of utility-scale solar on its system has increased by 2,030 megawatts and the total of rooftop solar (known as behind-the-meter solar) has grown by 1,420 megawatts.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2024
Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2024
The goal is to have industrial scale turbines of 15 to 20 megawatts each, Dr. Dagher said.
—David Sharp and Jennifer McDermott, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2024
As part of Newsom’s energy road map, lithium-ion batteries are being added to the state’s electric grid at a rapid rate, with companies creating the infrastructure for the first several thousand megawatts over the last few years and making plans to install many times more over the next two decades.
—Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024
The entire system in operation consumed about 1.7 megawatts of power.
—Benj Edwards, WIRED, 2 May 2024
New York is one of the country’s largest data center markets, with around 800 megawatts of capacity currently online, much of it catering to finance and tech companies who depend on nearby computing capacity to build and trade around the clock.
—Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 12 May 2024
Biden, who landed at Moffett Field on Thursday evening, planned to meet and greet Silicon Valley’s tech elite at two megawatt fundraisers on Friday: one in Portola Valley at the home of venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, and the other with former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer in Palo Alto.
—Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 10 May 2024
For power usage in excess of 10 megawatts a month, crypto mines will be fined $100,000.
—Neal Earley, arkansasonline.com, 11 Apr. 2024
In the six months since the 2023 annular eclipse, California ISO reports the amount of utility-scale solar on its system has increased by 2,030 megawatts and the total of rooftop solar (known as behind-the-meter solar) has grown by 1,420 megawatts.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2024
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megawatt
noun
mega·watt
ˈmeg-ə-ˌwät 
: one million watts
—abbreviation MW
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