megawatts

Power plant output

Megawatts is the plural of megawatt, a unit of electrical power equal to one million watts.

Power plants, wind farms, and solar installations measure their output in megawatts: The new facility generates 500 megawatts.

A single megawatt can power roughly 750 to 1,000 homes, depending on usage patterns.

generation

turbines

Blade-driven power converters

generatorsDevices converting motion to electricity
capacityMaximum amount containable
outputWhat something generates

hydroelectric · nuclear · solar · wind · thermal · renewables · geothermal · bioenergy · reactor · baseload

grid

transmission

Sending of information

substationPower distribution point
transformerVoltage-altering electrical device
distributionAllocation across recipients

voltage · interconnection · utilities · load · demand · supply · infrastructure · power-lines · feeder · dispatch

consumption

usage

Act of employing something

demandForceful request or requirement
loadCarried weight or burden
efficiencyProductive without waste

consumption · draw · industrial · residential · commercial · metering · billing · tariff

Categories

energyelectricity, power, oil, fuel, gas
electricityelectricity, battery, batteries, wire, wires
potenciafuerza, watts, maxima, nominal, pico
hydropowerhydropower, water turbine, dam, turbine, hydroelectricity
electrical gridpower grid, power grids, electrical grid, power line, power lines
steam powersteam, steam power, steam engine, steam engines, steam turbine

Opposites

power scale magnitude

megawattsmilliwatts

Power in tiny increments

microwatts · picowatts · watts · kilowatts

energy presence/absence

megawattsoff

Not functioning

powerless · dead · blackout · outage

power capacity implication

megawattstrickle

Thin, slow stream

trace amounts · powerlessness · energy poverty

Family

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