megawatt-hour
Power times duration
A megawatt-hour is a unit of energy equal to one million watt-hours, or the amount of energy produced or consumed by running one megawatt of power for one hour.
It's the standard unit for measuring large-scale electricity production and consumption: The wind farm generated 50,000 megawatt-hours last month.
Abbreviated MWh.
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utility
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transformer · powerline · load · baseload · dispatch · interconnection · blackout · outage · voltage · frequency
turbine
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- hydroelectricGenerated by flowing water
- nuclearOf atomic energy
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joule
SI energy quantity
factory
Industrial production facility
- smelterOre-refining plant
- refineryIndustrial purification facility
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battery
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