gigawatt


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gigawatt

[′gig·ə‚wät]
(electricity)
One billion watts, or 109 watts. Abbreviated GW.
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Managing Director Andreas Wagner told Europolitics: "We expect the installed and connected capacity of offshore wind power in Germany to stand at around 3.3 gigawatt at the beginning of 2016".
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