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PRONUNCIATION OF MEGAWATT HOUR

megawatt hour  [ˈmɛɡəˌwɒt aʊə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MEGAWATT HOUR

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Megawatt hour is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MEGAWATT HOUR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

megawatt hour

Kilowatt hour

The kilowatt hour, or kilowatt-hour, is a unit of energy equal to 1,000 watt-hours, or 3.6 megajoules. If the energy is being transmitted or used at a constant rate over a period of time, the total energy in kilowatt-hours is the product of the power in kilowatts and the time in hours. The kilowatt-hour is commonly used as a billing unit for energy delivered to consumers by electric utilities.

Definition of megawatt hour in the English dictionary

The definition of megawatt hour in the dictionary is a unit of energy equal to the work done by a power of a million watts in one hour.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MEGAWATT HOUR


bower
ˈbaʊə
cauliflower
ˈkɒlɪˌflaʊə
devour
dɪˈvaʊə
Eisenhower
ˈaɪzənˌhaʊə
empower
ɪmˈpaʊə
firepower
ˈfaɪəpaʊə
flour
ˈflaʊə
flower
ˈflaʊə
gaur
ɡaʊə
horsepower
ˈhɔːsˌpaʊə
hour
aʊə
hydropower
ˈhaɪdrəʊˌpaʊə
manpower
ˈmænˌpaʊə
our
aʊə
power
ˈpaʊə
shower
ˈʃaʊə
sour
ˈsaʊə
sunflower
ˈsʌnˌflaʊə
tower
ˈtaʊə
twenty-four-hour
ˈtwɛntɪˌfɔːʳˈaʊə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MEGAWATT HOUR

megaspore
megasporic
megasporophyll
megass
megasse
megastar
megastore
megastorm
megastructure
megatechnology
megathere
megatherian
megaton
megatonic
megatonnage
megavertebrate
megavitamin
megavolt
megawatt

WORDS THAT END LIKE MEGAWATT HOUR

canonical hour
credit hour
dinner hour
eleventh hour
golden hour
half an hour
half-hour
happy hour
literacy hour
lunch hour
one´s hour
one´s last hour
rush hour
sidereal hour
take one´s hour
the hour
the witching hour
watt-hour
witching hour
zero hour

Synonyms and antonyms of megawatt hour in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «megawatt hour» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MEGAWATT HOUR

Find out the translation of megawatt hour to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of megawatt hour from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «megawatt hour» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

兆瓦时
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

megavatio hora
570 millions of speakers

English

megawatt hour
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मेगावाट घंटे
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

ميجاوات ساعة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мегаватт час
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

megawatt-hora
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মেগাওয়াট ঘন্টা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mégawattheure
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jam megawatt
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Megawattstunde
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

メガワット時
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

메가 와트 시간
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Megawatt jam
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

megawatt giờ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மெகாவாட் மணிநேரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मेगावॅट तास
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Megawatt saat
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

megawattora
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

megawatogodzinę
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мегават годину
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

megawatt oră
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μεγαβατώρα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

megawatt uur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

megawattimme
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

megawatt time
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of megawatt hour

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MEGAWATT HOUR» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about megawatt hour

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MEGAWATT HOUR»

Discover the use of megawatt hour in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to megawatt hour and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Fostering Competition in China's Power Markets
Market B pays market A $13 a megawatt-hour, providing market A with $3 a megawatt-hour above its actual costs and saving market B $3 a megawatt- hour. Implementing spot energy transactions with the next-lowest sell quote. The process ...
Noureddine Berrah, Ranjit Lamech, Jianping Zhao, 2001
2
Model Building in Mathematical Programming
These give: Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 Period 4 Period 5 £1.3 per megawatt hour £2 per megawatt hour £2 per megawatt hour £2 per megawatt hour £2 per megawatt hour With this method of obtaining marginal valuations, there will clearly ...
H. Paul Williams, 2013
3
Nuclear Power: In Canada and Beyond
This is best illustrated by showing the approximate fuel costs to generate one Megawatt-hour, i.e. 1,000 kilowatt-hours, of electricity, as follows Nuclear fuel $2- 3 per Megawatt-hour Coal $20 per Megawatt-hour Oil $35-50 per Megawatt-hour  ...
Roger G. Steed, 2006
4
Draft Energy Bill: pre-legislative scrutiny, first report of ...
There is a refrigerator replacement programme that has been running in the United States and it costs £33 per megawatt hour of electricity saved. The cheapest low-carbon form of power we can find right now is onshore wind at about £83 per ...
Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Energy and Climate Change Committee, 2012
5
Energy Convergence: The Beginning of the Multi-Commodity Market
lars per megawatt hour. This practice is also common in the natural gas and oil markets. The application of market indexes to pricing financial derivatives is slightly more complicated. These applications range from plain vanilla swaps and  ...
Peter C. Fusaro, 2002
6
Energy Pricing: Economics and Principles
Day-ahead, or “spot” prices for wholesale electricity, soared to hundreds of dollars a megawatt hour—even exceeding $1,000 a megawatt hour—in the height of the crisis. Early last year, when California authorized its Department of Water ...
Roger L. Conkling, 2011
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Harvest the Wind: America's Journey to Jobs, Energy ...
Solar was much more expensive, with photovoltaics costing $134 to $192 per megawatt hour and solar thermal plants (generating steam from concentrated solar heat) costing $119 to $194 per megawatt hour. Nuclear came in at $77 to $114 ...
Philip Warburg, 2012
8
Transmission Expansion for Renewable Energy Scale-Up: ...
Charging on a per-Megawatt or per-Megawatt-Hour Basis Transmission cost can be allocated to load in two fundamentally different ways—as an energy charge or as a demand charge. A demand charge is usually based on the customer's ...
Marcelino Madrigal, Steven Stoft, 2012
9
Restructured Electricity Markets: California Market Design ...
FERC allows the CAlSO to set price caps on some market sales at $250 per megawatt-hour. FERC confirms the CAlSO's authority to reject bids to sell power that exceed the price caps in effect. San Diego Gas and Electric Company have ...
Jim Wells, 2002
10
21 CFR Food and Drugs: CFR Parts 100-169
at a rate of 10,000 Btu per kilowatthour generated (10 MMBtu per megawatt-hour) , and (3) For a boiler that generates only electricity, the alternate output-based emission limits would be calculated Where: ELOBE = Emission limit in units of ...
Office of The Federal Register, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MEGAWATT HOUR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term megawatt hour is used in the context of the following news items.
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CEE POWER-Hungary surges on outages, less Balkan supply
On regional exchanges, Czech and Slovak electricity for Wednesday retreated 6 percent to 49.11 euros ($53.43) per megawatt hour, though a ... «Reuters Africa, Jul 15»
2
Amazon Is Building A New Wind Farm In North Carolina
Amazon is currently setting up a smaller wind farm in Virginia, and in April, it announced a small 4.8 megawatt hour pilot of Tesla's energy ... «Gizmodo Australia, Jul 15»
3
EEX's to offer renewable power futures from Sept. 14
The payment cap will be 60 euros ($65.05) per megawatt hour (MWh), indicating the price at which a buyer of a cap future will receive payment ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
4
Has the UK's Climate Change Levy lost all meaning?
The exemption, provided through Levy Exemption Certificates (LECs), was worth around £4 per megawatt hour to clean energy producers, ... «Power Technology, Jul 15»
5
Moody's places Infinis's ratings on review for downgrade
... to sell Levy Exemption Certificates (LECs) to energy users, which will result in the loss of around GBP5 per megawatt hour (MWh) generated. «Moodys.com, Jul 15»
6
UK Getting Wise to Renewable Subsidies
The exemption acts like a subsidy and is worth about £5 per megawatt hour ($7.80 per megawatt hour) for renewable generators. It represents ... «Canada Free Press, Jul 15»
7
CEE POWER-Day ahead prices mainly rise on power plant outages
On regional exchanges, Czech and Slovak electricity for Tuesday climbed 23 percent to 52.06 euros ($56.39) per megawatt hour while ... «Reuters Africa, Jul 15»
8
Nevada may see more solar plants as price tag drops
The utility said the average cost of solar renewable energy delivered to Nevada Power in 2014 was about $137.65 per megawatt hour. «Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jul 15»
9
Australia's 'Carnival of Coal' – can you feel the love?
It is pledging to undercut the price of the coal station by $30 per megawatt hour. Time for my readers to draw a diagram to figure out which ... «RenewEconomy, Jul 15»
10
Dubai firm developing hybrid diesel and solar technology in Saudi …
... managing director, said Saudi Arabia had introduced a penalty for diesel power generation used above 270 litres per megawatt hour. «The National, Jul 15»

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