megawatt

American  

[meg-uh-wot] / ˈmɛg əˌwɒt /

noun

Electricity.

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

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megawatt British  

/ ˈmɛɡəˌwɒt /

noun

1.  MW.  one million watts

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megawatt Cultural  

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

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Etymology

Origin of megawatt

First recorded in 1895–1900; mega- + watt

Example Sentences

The company had 590 megawatts in active power at the end of the third quarter.

From Barron's

The Indian information-technology services provider said it will develop AI infrastructure with 100 megawatts of capacity in the initial phase, with an option to expand to 1 gigawatt.

From The Wall Street Journal

L&T said it would use Nvidia's powerful processors, which can train and run generative AI tech, to provide data centre capacity of up to 30 megawatts in Chennai and 40 megawatts in Mumbai.

From Barron's

In comparison, the estimated cost of building a big reactor in the U.S. that would generate about 1,100 megawatts of power is roughly $10 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal

About 300 megawatts of backup generation was tapped in the state on Feb. 2 to help stabilize the grid, according to the Energy Department.

From The Wall Street Journal