Get to know Gigawatt better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Gigawatt meaning
- One thousand million (10⁹) watts, an amount of power large enough to power such things as a midsize town or several small ones. (Consuming 1 gigawatt during a duration of 1 hour consumes 1 gigawatt-hour of energy.)
- The amount of data center capacity or amount of compute that this amount of power can provide under the current technological state of the art (PUE, clock speed, etc).
Using Gigawatt
- The main meaning on this page is: One thousand million (10⁹) watts, an amount of power large enough to power such things as a midsize town or several small ones. (Consuming 1 gigawatt during a duration of 1 hour consumes 1 gigawatt-hour of energy.) | The amount of data center capacity or amount of compute that this amount of power can provide under the current technological state of the art (PUE, clock speed, etc).
- In the example corpus, gigawatt often appears in combinations such as: gigawatt hours, gigawatt gw, than gigawatt.
Context around Gigawatt
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 13 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gigawatt
- In this selection, "gigawatt" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, 052, 175, hours, milestone and build stand out and add context to how "gigawatt" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1 2 gigawatt hours is and 1 3 gigawatt gw solar. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gigawatt" sits close to words such as abra, accies and accommodative, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gigawatt
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Whomever, I mean like 35-gigawatt-hours here and there. (10 words)
In April 2019 the production of electricity by Enefit Green reached 85 Gigawatt hours. (14 words)
Besides, 2.77 GigaWatt capacity was installed across sectors in the country, the ministry’s data stated. (17 words)
Total installed capacity of solar and wind power plants will climb to 64 gigawatt (GW) in 2026 from close to 33 GW today, with offshore wind taking over the throne as the country’s biggest green energy source. (38 words)
This is why you should not expect to see any gigawatt build-out projections in the short term. This is also related to the prevailing uncertainty how the market will develop in the next couple of years. (37 words)
The initiative, announced Thursday, aims to shave nearly 1 gigawatt of electricity demand — enough to power 200,000 Texas homes or about 1% of the record summer demand seen this year on the state grid. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
AmpIn is also establishing a state-of-the-art 1.3 gigawatt (GW) solar manufacturing facility in Odisha.
But Britishvolt was beset with delays, and it never came close to its goal of opening a factory that could crank out 38 gigawatt-hours of lithium-ion batteries every year.
However, the storage portion of Atrisco, comprising 1.2 gigawatt hours is now delayed due to supplier issues.
It is also estimated to generate 40 gigawatt-hours of energy every year, equivalent to the generation capacity of a 40-MW solar farm or a 20-MW wind farm.
IWL’s subsidiary, Inox Green Energy Services, is the only listed wind O&M services company in India, having a strong portfolio of more than 3.2 gigawatt (GW).
Rooftop solar is the answer for others, with Australia hitting a 20-gigawatt milestone from more than 3.4 million systems on homes and businesses.
So focusing on the numbers, lead generation once again, these are people coming to us customers coming to us with ideas of projects that stands at $9.5 billion 57 gigawatt hours.
This is why you should not expect to see any gigawatt build-out projections in the short term. This is also related to the prevailing uncertainty how the market will develop in the next couple of years.
Together, the three new developments are expected to generate more than 95 gigawatt (GW)-hours of electricity annually.
Total renewable output rose by 21 percent to 2,052 gigawatt-hours (GWh) as Visayas steadily recovered in the aftermath of Supertyphoon “Odette” (international name: Rai).
Whomever, I mean like 35-gigawatt-hours here and there.
Besides, 2.77 GigaWatt capacity was installed across sectors in the country, the ministry’s data stated.
Ecuador needs an additional 1,000 megawatts – or one gigawatt – of power to cover national demand, according to authorities.
Merely training a model is estimated to require about 10 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of power, equivalent to 1,000 U.S. homes’ yearly electrical use.
The initiative, announced Thursday, aims to shave nearly 1 gigawatt of electricity demand — enough to power 200,000 Texas homes or about 1% of the record summer demand seen this year on the state grid.
Energy from fossil fuels has been the lowest since 1986; this year it was only 23.73 gigawatt hours.
In April 2019 the production of electricity by Enefit Green reached 85 Gigawatt hours.
Total installed capacity of solar and wind power plants will climb to 64 gigawatt (GW) in 2026 from close to 33 GW today, with offshore wind taking over the throne as the country’s biggest green energy source.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced a 175 gigawatt (GW) target for renewables under the Paris Agreement.
Rival utility E.ON recently calculated that solar and wind power generated up to 52 gigawatt hours of electricity during peak daylight hours on Easter Monday.
Common combinations with gigawatt
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- gigawatt hours 6×
- gigawatt gw 5×
- than gigawatt 2×
- one gigawatt 2×
- gigawatt of 2×
- to gigawatt 2×