A gigawatt is the equivalent of one billion watts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beijing Plan to Boost Nuclear Power] Reference

(A terawatt is 1,000 gigawatts, and a gigawatt is the capacity of the largest sort of coal-fired power station.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely] Reference

Google said it aims to build one gigawatt of renewable energy capacity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Parsing of Annapolis] Reference

Yemen had 1 gigawatt of installed electric generating capacity in 2004.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy profile of Yemen] Reference

A gigawatt of snapping, snarling death burst over the spider-limbed ships.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across The Sea Of Suns]

India's total installed generation capacity as on Jan. 31 was 147.46 gigawatt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Areva to Start Operations at 8 New Factories in India] Reference

The winds from the Northeast alone provide 75 gigawatt of energy to the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenlight for Controversial Brazilian Nuclear Deal] Reference

The consumption of electric energy stood at 258,000 gigawatt hours (GWh) in 1996.    From Wordnik.com.  [Water profile of Brazil] Reference

South Africa exported 1253 gigawatt hours (GWh) by November 2007, importing 794 GWh.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Perhaps if it happened, we could blast our way out with the fighter's gigawatt laser.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forever War]

What makes no sense whatsoever is filling the desert up with gigawatt solar capacity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Cost of Solar] Reference

Installed solar-power generating capacity at the end of 2008 was less than 0.1 gigawatt.    From Wordnik.com.  [China to Encourage Solar Use] Reference

A gigawatt laser pumps out a billion kilowatts per second at a range of a hundred meters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forever War]

That doesn't mean anything, though; you could hide a gigawatt laser in each of those huts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forever War]

Still others are freaking gigawatt monsters that shake you about and leave you breathless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guest blog: John Brown–Testicles and the Zing life «] Reference

'Sorry, son,' Franken said, turning on his gigawatt smile, 'but I'm late for my train and -'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Blade]

SI prefixes can be used, for example megawatt electrical (MWe) and gigawatt electrical (GWe).    From Wordnik.com.  [Watt] Reference

A gigawatt is equivalent to one billion watts, enough to power about 300,000 U.S. households.    From Wordnik.com.  [Siemens Increases Its Windmill Push] Reference

And when he flashes his gigawatt smile, you could keep the lights on in Woonsocket for a week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barack Obama's down but not out] Reference

Construction costs are about the same per gigawatt as a coal plant and half the cost of a nuke plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: King Coal] Reference

This is measured in gigawatt-days per tonne and its potential is proportional to the level of enrichment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nuclear fuel cycle] Reference

E.g. a 1 gigawatt power plant alone will generate 150,000 barrels of supercritical carbon dioxide per day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlie Cray: The Oil Industry's Future: An Illusory Platform] Reference

PELOSSE: Yes, I think India, they have a vision (inaudible) they want to build up 20 gigawatt capacity in 2020.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2009] Reference

May 1997, exceeded that for the previous three months by 2,8% (1 271 gigawatt hours) after seasonal adjustment.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

China has announced plans to build 100 nuclear plants that will produce a total of at least a gigawatt of power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empowering the Planet - An Earth Day Overview] Reference

By the end of this month, another gigawatt of projects will have been built so far this year, half of them offshore.    From Wordnik.com.  [UK renewable energy industry right on target ? when the wind blows] Reference

The early part of the new millennium saw a shortage of electricity supplies (estimated at 30 gigawatt (GW) in 2004).    From Wordnik.com.  [One Lifeboat~ Chapter 3] Reference

Use of the lamps avoided 66.3 megawatts of peak capacity and resulted in monthly energy savings of 30 gigawatt-hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

Even with a modest diameter of about 320 feet (100 meters), they estimate KiteGen can produce half a gigawatt of energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Generating Power From Kites] Reference

About a month ago, another company called Bright Source signed a billion dollar contract to build a gigawatt power plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2008] Reference

During August 1997, 15272 gigawatt hours of electricity was consumed, which was 384 gigawatt hours less than for July 1997.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

An enemy laser raked across the clearing to our left, making a quick shower of sparks when it flicked by a gigawatt mounting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forever War]

The AWEA report said 14 U.S. states now have more than one gigawatt of power coming from wind power, up from seven states in 2008.    From Wordnik.com.  [GE Leads U.S. Wind Market but Faces More Competition] Reference

"Both sides are in discussions over the CNNC exporting a one-gigawatt nuclear plant to Pakistan," he added, without giving details.    From Wordnik.com.  [China, Pakistan Discuss Another Nuclear Plant] Reference

The production from hydroplants was 280 gigawatt-hours/year (GWh/yr), and hydropower amounts for 50% of total electricity production.    From Wordnik.com.  [Water profile of Haiti] Reference