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- noun Plural form of
mega-watt .
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Examples
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There are 800 solar panels located throughout the community on garage roofs, and they produce 1.5 mega-watts of thermal power during a summer day and supply heat to the district heating system.
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Like, exactly how many mega-watts or hit points of holy fire did Gandalf have to emit in order to stop the Balrog?
Circling around the minefield, finding Dracula x00c5;ka 2008
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The solar panels, which occupy an area equivalent to 50 football pitches, generate 9.5 mega-watts of peak power, the same as six wind turbines.
Wind Powered Energy in This Town Enrages Enviromentalists | Impact Lab 2007
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The county already has a partnership with Fortistar to convert methane gas into electricity, generating about 3.2 mega-watts of electricity and almost $900,000 in revenue since 2005.
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In spite of all this the nations of the world plod recklessly forward with new nuclear power plants risking the long term poisoning of their land, water and people for a few mega-watts of electricity which for the same cost or less could be produced by other less risky means.
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"When we first started talking about solar in San Francisco, there were a lot of mega-words, but not a lot of mega-watts," said Phil Ting, SF Assessor-Recorder.
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CPS Energy owns and operates 5,872.6 mega-watts of generating capacity.
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This settlement applies to all three units at the Jeffrey Energy Center, which comprise 2,160 mega-watts, or 73 percent, of Westar's coal fleet.
USDOJ: Justice News 2010
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He, however, noted that in the new city they planned to build, they would generate 300 mega-watts of power, while gas and water would be piped into houses there.
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•Contracting for 220 mega-watts of natural gas-based capacity in eastern Colorado.
Durangoherald.com 2009
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