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- noun One million million ( 1012 )
watts , abbreviated asTW .
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Examples
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The climate system can be very accurately described as a terawatt scale heat engine.
USCCSP: Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere « Climate Audit 2006
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Energy produced from solar photovoltaic panels is forecast to grow more than tenfold to 230 terawatt hours.
Wind Giant Vestas Cuts Back Flemming Emil Hansen 2012
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Now work shows this may be about a terawatt -- about the same as mixing caused by the wind, or the tides.
tingilinde: 2009
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The International Energy Agency IEA estimates that by 2030, new electronic gadgets will triple their energy consumption to 1,700 terawatt hours, the equivalent of the home electricity consumption of the U.S. and Japan combined.
Rep. Mike Honda: Country's Cost-Cutting Culture Must Begin at Home -- With Electronics Rep. Mike Honda 2011
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Google consumed 2.26 terawatt hours of electricity last year, which is more than the consumption of 200,000 average American homes.
For Data Center, Google Goes for the Cold Sven Grunberg 2011
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Now work shows this may be about a terawatt -- about the same as mixing caused by the wind, or the tides.
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The shutdown of Germany's nuclear plants will take out about 50 terawatt hours of low-carbon electricity a year, Laszlo Varro , the head of the IEA's gas, coal and power markets division, said in a telephone briefing.
IEA Warns on Impact of German Nuclear Halt James Herron 2011
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Heard: An Ill Wind Blows for Vestas Altogether, the IEA forecasts the amount of electricity generated from wind will grow more than fourfold between 2009 and 2020 to 1,282 terawatt hours.
Wind Giant Vestas Cuts Back Flemming Emil Hansen 2012
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An extra 90 terawatt hours of gas-fired power would be needed, replacing 40 terawatt hours of power from coal plants to offset the entire 25 million tons of CO2, he said.
IEA Warns on Impact of German Nuclear Halt James Herron 2011
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The average global power consumption currently stands at 15 terawatt (TW) - and the global wind power capacity alone is 72 TW.
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