According to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), in 2008, the U.S. wind energy industry brought online approximately 8,500 megawatts (MW) of new wind power capacity. This production will help avoid nearly 44 million tons of carbon emissions the equivalent of taking 7 million cars off the road. Therefore,
for every megawatt of installed capacity, a wind farm can potentially earn approximately 5,175 tons of CO2e
the equivalent of taxing approximately 820 cars off the road.
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A 1 megawatt power station can power 10,000 100W bulbs. This is because 1 megawatt is equal to 10,000 100W bulbs in terms of power consumption.
A megawatt is one million watts. One watt is a unit of electrical power.
Gallons are a measure of volume. Megawatt is a measure of power. The two are not automatically convertible without some other rate.
1 MW is 106 watts.
To use 1 megawatt you would need to switch on five hundred 2-kilowatt convectors. That would blow the fuse :)
1000. A megawatt-hour is the energy you'd get with a megawatt of power for 1 hour. Energy = power * time. It's important to note that it's 'megawatt hour' and not megawatt/hour (ie. it's not megawatt per hour).A gigawatt has 1000 times the power of a megawatt. Thus, since the time is the same (both 1 hour), a gigawatt-hour = 1000 megawatt hours.
1 kw of solar power with a average of 5.5 hours of sunlight per day will produce 1 carbon credit per year. 1 carbon credit is equal to 1 ton of carbon dioxide offset. Gary Waren
Most power plants produce several Megawatts of power. A Megawatt is one million watts.
None. First, a megawatt is a megawatt - whether it is nuclear or not. Second, a megawatt is a measure of power while a minute is either a measure of time or of angular displacement. In either case, a watt and a minute measure two different things and, according to the basic rules of dimensional analysis, conversion from one to the other is not valid.
A megawatt (MW) is larger than a kilowatt (kW). Specifically, one megawatt equals 1,000 kilowatts, making it 1,000 times larger. This measurement is commonly used to express the capacity of power plants and electrical systems.
There are 1,000 kilowatts in a single megawatt. These are measures of electrical power which are based on the metric system.