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That depends. The average lightning bolt peaks at the terawatt range, so at least 1000 gigawatt and above.
However, this only occurs in microseconds; around 30 microseconds or so for normal lightning strikes. That's a really short duration; 1 second equals 1,000,000 microseconds.
Some say that the strongest EARTH based lightning is around 100,000 gigawatts at their peak; we don't really know since each lightning bolt tends to vary in power, and thousands occur everyday, making it impossible to track them all.
If you're looking for the strongest lightning bolt in the UNIVERSE, that would be even more impossible to calculate since lightning storms in places like Saturn are easily thousands of times stronger than their Earth based cousins.
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