Examples of gigawatt in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Benchmark Mineral Intelligence estimates global demand for electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries will jump 50% this year from 2020’s level to 223 gigawatt-hours, then double to 443 GWh in 2023. — Alan Ohnsman, Forbes, 6 May 2021 California has never built more than 2.7 gigawatts of non-rooftop solar power or 1 gigawatt of wind power in a year. — Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2021 The H2Teesside facility in northeast England could produce 1 gigawatt of hydrogen — a fifth of the U.K. government’s target — by 2030, and would capture and store 2 million tons of carbon dioxide a year. — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021 Among the latter, BP won two 1.5 gigawatt U.K. offshore wind leases in February by bidding almost double the amount fetched by similar-sized leases at the same sale. — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2021 NuScale, which was spun out of Oregon State University in 2007 and has benefited from DOE support, has designed a small modular nuclear reactor the company says will be safer, cheaper, and more flexible that a conventional gigawatt power reactor. — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 4 Nov. 2020 That's a lot of energy as 1 gigawatt can power roughly 300,000 homes in the West. — Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 22 Oct. 2020 Bocek says the company has plans to scale its production up to a 10 gigawatt-hour facility within five years. — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 12 Oct. 2020 The goal is to get battery production at 100 gigawatt-hours by 2022 and 3 terawatt-hours by 2030. — Roberto Baldwin, Car and Driver, 22 Sep. 2020

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