Definition of "megawatts" []

• Plural form of megawatt. (noun)

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• "The news comes days after India's Reliance Power Ltd. signed a $10 billion deal with Shangai Electric Group under which it agreed to buy power generation equipment and related services for a total of 30,000 megawatts from the Chinese company, a move that underscores China's increasing penetration in the energy market."
• ""Forty megawatts is huge," said John Stanton, vice-president of government affairs at the U.S. Solar Energy Industries Association in Washington, D.C. Stanton said solar panel systems, once relegated to the rooftops of homes, farms and commercial buildings, are growing in size as technology costs fall and government incentives increase."
• "The excessive synchrotron radiation about 13 megawatts is the reason why a bigger electron synchrotron than LEP has not been proposed."