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gigawatt-hours

gigawatt-hours is the plural of gigawatt-hour.

Meaning of gigawatt-hour

Noun

gigawatt-hour (plural gigawatt-hours)

  1. A unit of energy equal to that provided by one gigawatt acting for one hour (3·6 × 10¹² joules).
    • Holonyms: megawatt-year (31.536e12 J) < petajoule (1.000e15 J) < terawatt-hour (3.600e15 J) < gigawatt-year (31.536e15 J) < exajoule (1.000e18 J) < petawatt-hour (3.600e18 J) < terawatt-year (31.536e18 J)
  2. (metonymically) A measure of the amount of equipment that produces, consumes, transmits, or stores this amount of energy.
    • Both [solar photovoltaic] panel and battery imports from China [to Pakistan] are on the rise. […] The nation also purchased about 1.25 gigawatt-hours of batteries in 2024 [=1.25 gigawatt-hours' worth of battery capacity], according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. By...2025 October 1, Faseeh Mangi, Tooba Khan, “Pakistan's Solar Boom Faces Ire From Debt-Strapped Government”, in BloombergNEF, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2025

Questions about gigawatt-hours

What is gigawatt-hours the plural of?
Gigawatt-hours is the plural of gigawatt-hour.

Words near gigawatt-hours in the dictionary

  1. gigawatt hour
  2. gigawatt hours
  3. gigawatt year
  4. gigawatt years
  5. gigawatt-hour
  6. gigawatt-hours
  7. gigawatt-year
  8. gigawatt-years
  9. gigawatts
  10. gigaword
  11. gigawords

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