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What is a gigawatt?

What is a gigawatt? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One thousand million (109) watts, abbreviated as GW.
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The burning of brown coal in Victoria's Latrobe Valley produces about 70 tonnes of uranium oxide per gigawatt of electrical energy per year.
In British Columbia, we have Bute Inlet, one of the biggest run-of-river hydro facilities. It's a one gigawatt facility.
Expansions of additional capacity through acquisitions and development in 2005 and 2006 contributed 292 gigawatt hours during the quarter.
On 28 March 2006, Yudinn applied for permits to export up to 204 megawatts of firm power and 894 gigawatt hours of energy per year for a period of 25 years.
Our facilities produced 3,813 gigawatt hours of electricity in the first quarter of 2007, compared with 3,545 gigawatts during the same period last year.
If all the measures were to be implemented, we would be able to save 1.9 gigawatt hours and cut CO2 emissions by 425 tonnes every year.

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