gigawatt
Billion watts together
A gigawatt is one billion watts, a unit of electrical power.
The term appears in discussions of large-scale energy production—power plants, national grids, renewable energy capacity: The solar farm generates two gigawatts.
Pop culture cemented the word through *Back to the Future*'s "1.21 gigawatts" needed to power time travel.
Sending of information
- substationPower distribution point
- transformerVoltage-altering electrical device
- voltageElectrical potential difference
- interconnectionMutual joining of parts
distribution · infrastructure · high-voltage · switchyard · feeder · relay · dispatch · utility-scale
Blade-driven energy converter
- nuclearOf atomic energy
- hydroelectricGenerated by flowing water
- solarOf the star
- windAir current outdoors
generator · capacity · plant · thermal · geothermal · reactor · powerhouse · output
SI energy quantity
- unitIndividual part or measure
- scaleMeasure of relative size
- ratingAssigned evaluative score
- nameplateIdentifying sign mounted publicly
BTU · conversion · metric
Forceful request or requirement
- usageAct of employing something
- loadCarried weight or burden
- industrialOf factories and production
- smelterOre-refining plant
factory · city · nation · household · commercial · baseload · electrification
transmission
Sending of information
- substationPower distribution point
- transformerVoltage-altering electrical device
- voltageElectrical potential difference
interconnection · distribution · infrastructure · high-voltage · switchyard · feeder · relay · dispatch · utility-scale
turbine
Blade-driven energy converter
- nuclearOf atomic energy
- hydroelectricGenerated by flowing water
- solarOf the star
wind · generator · capacity · plant · thermal · geothermal · reactor · powerhouse · output · baseload
joule
SI energy quantity
nameplate · BTU · conversion · metric
demand
Forceful request or requirement
- usageAct of employing something
- loadCarried weight or burden
- industrialOf factories and production
smelter · factory · city · nation · household · commercial · baseload · electrification
- giga- unitsgigaton, gigabit, gigajoule, gigavolt, gigapascal
- unitsunit, angstrom, yard, meter, base units
- Power & Energyvoltage, amperage, generator, turbine, solar panel
- Electrical Unitsampere, volt, coulomb, ohm, farad
- Power Unitshorsepower, microwatt, nanowatt, brake horsepower
- Back to the FutureDeLorean, Doc Brown, Marty McFly, flux capacitor, time machine
gigawattUSB power
Energy via rectangular port
AA battery · microelectronics · pacemaker · watch battery · wall outlet