gigawatt

• “A gigawatt is the equivalent of one billion watts.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Beijing Plan to Boost Nuclear Power

• “This project and subsequent expansions will bring the peak solar energy capacity to just about a gigawatt, which is identical to the energy made by smaller conventional coal plants.”

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• “(A terawatt is 1,000 gigawatts, and a gigawatt is the capacity of the largest sort of coal-fired power station.)”

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• “He majored in mechanical engineering at Cornell, where one of his professors was Carl Sagan, and was working as an actor at a Seattle sketch comedy show when the host mispronounced the word "gigawatt"; he'd incorrectly said "jigowatt.”

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• “Before you write one more word, do enough homework to answer this simple question: How much high-level radioactive waste does a large (say 1 gigawatt electric) nuclear plant produce in a year? expressed either in tons or in cubic meters.”

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• “And according to a new report by the Solar Energy Industries Association, nearly one gigawatt of added capacity will be installed in 2010, a 114 percent increase over last year.”

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• “At the end of December, Beijing Jingneng, a clean-energy unit of the Beijing municipal government, had a total installed capacity of 1.19 gigawatt of gas-fired power.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Chinese Clean-Energy Companies to List in Hong Kong

• “Iberdrola produced 3,090 gigawatt hour worth of renewable energy in the U.S., almost as much as in Spain.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Iberdrola Profits From U.S. Renewable Energy Market

• “At the end of 2008, Africa's installed wind power capacity was just 593 megawatts, but by the end of last year it was just under one gigawatt. 1000 megawatts.”

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• “The two companies will cooperate on the first phase of a two-gigawatt solar field, First Solar President Bruce Sohn said on Wednesday.”

  The Wall Street Journal: First Solar Plans Inner Mongolia Project

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