Sample Sentences & Example Usage. 1  Dashon Nicholas: I think itâs just kids, i think it is pretty disturbing, but this whole area down here is disturbing. 2  Howard Zinn: They'll say we're disturbing the peace,but there is no peace.What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war.
The gigawatt is equal to one billion (109) watts or 1 gigawatt = 1000 megawatts. This unit is often used for large power plants or power grids. For example, by the end of 2010 power shortages in China's Shanxi province were expected to increase to 5â6 GW and the installed capacity of wind power in Germany was 25.8 GW.
The name Gigafactory comes from the factoryâs planned annual battery production capacity of 35 gigawatt-hours (GWh). âGigaâ is a unit of measurement that represents âbillionsâ. One GWh is the equivalent of generating (or consuming) one billion watts for one hourâone million times that of one kWh.