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  2. Capacity factor - Wikipedia

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    If a plant is only needed during the day, for example, even if it operates at full power output from 8 am to 8 pm every day (12 hours) all year long, it would only have a 50% capacity factor. Due to low capacity factors, electricity from peaking power plants is relatively expensive because the limited generation has to cover the plant fixed costs.

  3. Watt - Wikipedia

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    One terawatt hour of energy is equal to a sustained power delivery of one terawatt for one hour, or approximately 114 megawatts for a period of one year: Power output = energy / time 1 terawatt hour per year = 1 × 10 12 W·h / (365 days × 24 hours per day) ≈ 114 million watts, equivalent to approximately 114 megawatts of constant power output.

  4. Kilowatt-hour - Wikipedia

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    A 365-day year equals 8,760 hours, so over a period of one year, power of one gigawatt equates to 8.76 terawatt-hours of energy. Conversely, one terawatt-hour is equal to a sustained power of about 114 megawatts for a period of one year.

  5. Orders of magnitude (power) - Wikipedia

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    10 2: hecto-(hW) 1 × 10 2: biomed: approximate basal metabolic rate of an adult human body [16] 1.2 × 10 2: tech: electric power output of 1 m 2 solar panel in full sunlight (approx. 12% efficiency), at sea level 1.3 × 10 2: tech: peak power consumption of a Pentium 4 CPU 2 × 10 2: tech: stationary bicycle average power output [17] [18] 2. ...

  6. Orders of magnitude (energy) - Wikipedia

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    1.85×10 12 J Gravitational potential energy of the Twin Towers, combined, accumulated throughout their construction and released during the collapse of the complex. [154] [155] [156] 3.4×10 12 J Maximum fuel energy of an Airbus A330-300 (97,530 liters [157] of Jet A-1 [158]) [159] 3.6×10 12 J 1 GW·h (gigawatt-hour) [160] 4×10 12 J

  7. GE Announces 1 Gigawatt of US Wind Orders following PTC ...

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    GE Announces 1 Gigawatt of US Wind Orders ... Launches New Brilliant Wind Turbine Strong U.S. Orders Backlog Positions GE for 2013 Brilliant 1.7-100 Wind Turbine Provides 6 Percent More Power than ...

  8. Giga- - Wikipedia

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    The notation 1 GB represents 1,000,000,000 bytes or, in deprecated usage, 1,073,741,824 (2 30) bytes. Per IEC 60027-2 A.2 and ISO/IEC 80000 standards, the correct notation of 2 30 is gibi (symbol Gi). [14] One gibibyte (1 GiB) is 1,073,741,824 bytes or 1.074 GB. Despite international standards, the use of 1 GB = 2 30 B is widespread.

  9. Burnup - Wikipedia

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    In nuclear power technology, burnup (also known as fuel utilization) is a measure of how much energy is extracted from a primary nuclear fuel source. It is measured as the fraction of fuel atoms that underwent fission in %FIMA (fissions per initial metal atom) [1] or %FIFA (fissions per initial fissile atom) [2] as well as, preferably, the actual energy released per mass of initial fuel in ...