How to Use gigawatt in a Sentence

gigawatt

noun

• In the first half of this year alone, China added 52 new gigawatts of coal power.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• Moore has embraced a goal of bringing on 8.5 gigawatts of wind power for the state.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2024
• Mr Schmitz assumes most of the three gigawatts the government plans to phase out by 2023 will come from these mines.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
• The two projects planned for off Maryland’s coast so far only account for about 2 gigawatts.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2024
• The Biden Administration has a punchy target to install 30 gigawatts of offshore wind by the end of the decade.
  — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2023
• China is on track to reach a goal of installing 1,200 gigawatts of renewables five years ahead of schedule.
  — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
• The government expects power demand to reach a high of 229 gigawatts in April.
  — Sibi Arasu, ajc, 1 Apr. 2023
• For context, a terawatt is a thousand times bigger than a gigawatt.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 6 Apr. 2022
• Miller’s confusing comments on the earnings call last month about the 4.5 gigawatts may have just been a verbal typo.
  — Washington Post, 16 May 2019
• To ensure that such power’s available when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind isn’t blowing, a record 7.5 gigawatts of battery storage was also added.
  — Alan Ohnsman, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• Yes, Alpha Centauri is very, very far away, but the idea here is to propel these nanocraft using a 10 gigawatt light beam trained on their sails.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2018
• Less than 15% comes from rooftop arrays, and India has so far managed to set up only 11 gigawatts of rooftop solar.
  — Sibi Arasu, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2024
• Coal will be the biggest victim, with 369 gigawatts of projects standing to be cancelled, according to BNEF.
  — Jess Shankleman and Hayley Warren, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2017
• The grid operator expects to have enough supply to meet peak demand of about 83.3 gigawatts at around 6 p.m.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2023
• The modules will be enough to power 1.8 gigawatts of solar energy projects.
  — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• Barakah will supply 6 gigawatts of low-carbon electricity in the next few years.
  — Yousef Al Otaiba, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2020
• But two hours later at sunset, the buffer of spare available supplies will fall to just under 2.3 gigawatts.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2023
• In five years, the growth in AI workloads could spur data centers to grow to over a gigawatt, costing between $10 billion to $25 billion, the report says.
  — Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 25 Sep. 2024
• This month, however, U.K. wind farms produced less than one gigawatt on certain days...
  — Robert Bryce, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
• Pakistan, the fifth-most populous country in the world, imported 13 gigawatts of Chinese solar modules in the first half of this year alone.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 20 Sep. 2024
• In contrast, the new method used a near-infrared laser with a peak power of approximately 10 gigawatts.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2023
• The country’s homes, collectively, use about 700 gigawatt hours per year.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2018
• The network has lost 113 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of energy since mid-January.
  — Jon Laiseca, National Geographic, 13 Mar. 2018
• In return, the White House promised to help tribes develop up to 3 gigawatts of renewable energy.
  — ProPublica, 20 Sep. 2024
• BloombergNEF classifies roughly 28 gigawatts, or more than a quarter of the fleet, as at risk of shutting down due to low or negative margins.
  — Liam Denning and Mark Gongloff, Houston Chronicle, 13 Sep. 2019
• There were significant shutdowns in the U.S. where 13.5 gigawatts of coal power was retired.
  — Sibi Arasu, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2023
• Those four projects would collectively supply around 1 gigawatt of power to the country.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2018
• Just last month, for example, the Traverse wind farm in Oklahoma brought close to a gigawatt of new energy online.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 6 Apr. 2022
• Expected to open in July of next year, Corsicana will surpass Whinstone at a size one gigawatt or 1000 megawatts.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2022
• Ukraine’s pre-war generation was between 32 to 25 gigawatts (GW) of power.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024