megawatt

[meg-uh-wot]

noun

Electricity.

1. a unit of power, equal to one million watts. MW

megawatt

/ ˈmɛɡəˌwɒt /

noun

1. MW. one million watts

megawatt

1. A unit of power: one million watts. A typical large electrical generating plant can produce a thousand megawatts of electricity.

Word History and Origins

Origin of megawatt¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; mega- + watt

Example Sentences

The reactor produces about 1,100 megawatts of electricity—enough to power a midsize city or a major AI data center.

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Prices have been broadly rangebound in recent weeks, hovering between 30 and 32 euros a megawatt hour.

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Cipher will deliver an additional 39 megawatts of power to Fluidstack at its Barber Lake facility in Colorado City, Texas.

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Wright said Three Mile Island will add around 800 megawatts of power generation to the grid.

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With the latest additions, the Golden State has reached 16,942 megawatts of available battery storage — about one-third of the estimated capacity needed to reach its goal of 100% clean energy by 2045.

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