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The earliest citing of the megawatt in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a reference in the 1900 Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language. The OED also states that megawatt appeared in a November 28, 1947, article in the journal Science (506:2). A United States Department of Energy video explaining gigawatts Gigawatt
C&I—Commercial and industrial customers (Electricity transmission)CA—Carbon Abatement- increasing carbon-neutrality —Control area (EU) – The portion of the generation and transmission system controlled by a single transmission system operator.
Megawatt: equal to one million watts of power. It is commonly used to measure the output of power plants , as well as the power consumption of electric locomotives , data centers , and other entities that heavily consume electricity.
10 3: kilo-(kW)1–3 × 10 3 W : tech: heat output of a domestic electric kettle 1.1 × 10 3 W : tech: power of a microwave oven 1.366 × 10 3 W : astro: power per square meter received from the Sun at the Earth's orbit
Energy; system unit code (alternative) symbol or abbrev. notes sample default conversion combinations SI: yottajoule: YJ YJ 1.0 YJ (2.8 × 10 17 kWh) zettajoule: ZJ ZJ 1.0 ZJ (2.8 × 10 14 kWh)
All the SI prefixes are commonly applied to the watt-hour: a kilowatt-hour (kWh) is 1,000 Wh; a megawatt-hour (MWh) is 1 million Wh; a milliwatt-hour (mWh) is 1/1,000 Wh and so on. The kilowatt-hour is commonly used by electrical energy providers for purposes of billing, since the monthly energy consumption of a typical residential customer ...
Megawatt The megawatt (symbol: MW) is equal to one million (1000000) watts. Meter Meter (m), Basic metric unit of length equal to 3.28 feet, 1.09 yards or 39.37 inches. Related units are the decimeter (dm) at 10 per meter, the centimeter (cm) at 100 per meter, the millimeter (mm) at 1000 per meter and the kilometer (km) at 1000 meters. Methanation
Megawatt, (MW) a unit of power; Milliwatt, (mW) one thousandth of a watt.mw, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Malawi; Medium wave, (MW) frequency range of 530 to 1700 kHz (commonly called the AM band) Molecular weight, a former term for molecular mass; Microwave, a type of electromagnetic wave