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  2. Orders of magnitude (power) - Wikipedia

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    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

  3. Kilowatt-hour - Wikipedia

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    The kilowatt-hour is commonly used by electrical energy providers for purposes of billing, since the monthly energy consumption of a typical residential customer ranges from a few hundred to a few thousand kilowatt-hours. Megawatt-hours (MWh), gigawatt-hours (GWh), and terawatt-hours (TWh) are often used for metering larger amounts of ...

  4. Watt - Wikipedia

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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

  5. Megawatt-hour - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 1 April 2020, at 21:35 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

  6. Mega- - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Tonne of oil equivalent - Wikipedia

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    The tonne of oil equivalent (toe) is a unit of energy defined as the amount of energy released by burning one tonne of crude oil.It is approximately 42 gigajoules or 11.630 megawatt-hours, although as different crude oils have different calorific values, the exact value is defined by convention; several slightly different definitions exist.

  8. Energy storage - Wikipedia

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    Storage capacity is the amount of energy extracted from an energy storage device or system; usually measured in joules or kilowatt-hours and their multiples, it may be given in number of hours of electricity production at power plant nameplate capacity; when storage is of primary type (i.e., thermal or pumped-water), output is sourced only with ...

  9. Tesla Megapack - Wikipedia

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    Launched in 2019, a Megapack can store up to 3.9 megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity. Each Megapack is a container of similar size to an intermodal container. They are designed to be deployed by electric utilities. The energy stored can be used as required, for example during periods of peak electricity demand or when grid power is disrupted.