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Gigawatt

From "giga", meaning billion, and "watt", a unit of energy (see "watt"). A gigawatt is one billion watts of electrical energy. To give you an idea how large one gigawatt is, it's the energy consumed by 10 million 100 watt light bulbs illuminated at the same time.

Permanent link Gigawatt - Creation date 2021-06-26


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