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- noun metrology
Gigawatt hour (s).
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Examples
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Energy Deliveries: Energy deliveries at FortisAlberta increased 61 gigawatt hours ( "GWh"), or
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The HidroAysén dam in Chile will produce 18,400 gigawatt hours GWh per year, and the Belo Monte dam will produce 28,000 GWh per year.
CORRECTION 2011
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Fred, there are sufficient GWh of energy in the middle of the country to provide a huge portion of the nations energy requirements.
Matthew Yglesias » An Electrical Grid We Can Believe In 2009
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Using an "aggressive" market scenario for electric-vehicle demand that assumes an oil price of $200 a barrel, compared with just over $100 a barrel at present for Brent crude, Mr. See says, car makers will need some 23 gigawatt hours of storage capacity by 2020; about seven GWh, or 25%, less than the aggregate projected capacity planned by battery makers for the end of the decade.
Car-Battery Shakeout Ahead David Pearson 2011
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The Taiyanggong plant, China's first urban gas-fired trigeneration plant, generates 3.2 GWh of power per year and is estimated to cut 1.5 million metric tons of CO2 per year in electricity generation alone.
Alex Pasternack: Highlight of Hillary Clinton's Beijing Tour? A Power Plant 2009
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We know that, today, Alabama can generate an additional 51,000 GWh of electricity from available renewable energy resources, which would make total renewable power production equal to approximately 60 percent of current electricity sales.
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The gross theoretical hydropower potential of peninsular Malaysia is 123000 GWh/year, and that of Sabah and Sarawak together is 107000 GWh/year.
Malaysia- FAO's Information System on Water and Agriculture 2009
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In 1995, the total hydropower generation was about 5800 GWh, or 30percent of all power production in Malaysia.
Malaysia- FAO's Information System on Water and Agriculture 2009
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With 50 turbines producing about 4.5 million kWh each per year, the GE Lake Ontario wind farm would generate 225 GWh of electricity each year, and 6,750 GWh over a 30-year lifetime.
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With 45 turbines producing about 5.3 million kWh each per year, the Vestas Lake Ontario wind farm would generate about 240 GWh of electricity each year, and 7,200 GWh over its lifetime.
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