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

A new lease agreement with CoreWeave for 150 megawatts at Polaris Forge 1 fully leases the North Dakota campus.

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The battery parks, with a combined total capacity of 200 megawatts, can supply around two hours of energy for roughly 600,000 homes, equivalent to powering a city about the size of Washington, D.C.

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The president assured those at the dialogue that ongoing power projects would address the recurring outages by adding 265 megawatts to the national grid.

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A new term, hyperscale, was coined by the tech industry to describe sites where the power requirement runs into tens of megawatts, before gigawatts, a thousand times bigger than megawatts, came on the scene.

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The farm has a total generation capacity of 4.5 megawatts, about the same as a medium-sized wind turbine.

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