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For reference, about 10,000 100-watt lightbulbs or 5,000 computer systems would be needed to draw 1 MW. Also, 1 MW is approximately 1360 horsepower. Modern high-power diesel-electric locomotives typically have a peak power of 3–5 MW, while a typical modern nuclear power plant produces on the order of 500–2000 MW peak output.
The Lieberose Photovoltaic Park – one of the largest in Germany – had a nameplate capacity at opening of 52.79 megawatt and cost some €160 million to build [37] [38] or €3031 per kW. With a yearly output of some 52 GWh (equivalent to just over 5.9 MW) it has a capacity factor just over 11%.
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 A gigawatt is typical average power for an industrial city of one million habitants, and is the output of a large power station.
For example, the NIST document has 1 square mile = 2.589 988 E+06 square meters. The convert template has 1 square mile = 2,589,988.110336 square meters. Values for the fundamental physical constants come from the NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty, either the 2010 or the 2014 version. The 2018 version is in preparation.
However, Canada, Japan, Spain, and the United States often specify using the converted lower nominal power output in MW AC, a measure more directly comparable to other forms of power generation. Most solar parks are developed at a scale of at least 1 MW p. As of 2018, the world's largest operating photovoltaic power stations surpassed 1 gigawatt.
In the context of domestic PV installations, the kilowatt (symbol kW) is the most common unit for nominal power, for example P peak = 1 kW. Colloquial English sometimes conflates the quantity power and its unit by using the non-standard label watt-peak (symbol W p), possibly prefixed as in kilowatt-peak (kW p), megawatt-peak (MW p), etc.
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As of 2019, no power station comparable to Three Gorges is under construction, as the largest under construction power station is the hydroelectric Baihetan Dam (16,000 MW). [ 2 ] The proposed 20,000 MW Australia 's Darwin Solar Park , for the Australia-Asia Power Link , would be slightly below the capacity of the Three Gorges Dam.