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• n  a unit of power equal to one million watts

• In mid-April, power bought in the mid-Atlantic region for delivery in 2002 cost $51 per megawatt hour its since fallen to $38.
• Funded by the China National Mechanical and Equipment Corporation, this 120-megawatt power plant will double the DRC's national production of electricity and bring light to a large .
• Energy taxes were channeled into research centers, where engineers crafted designs that would eventually produce cutting-edge giants like Vestas' 3-megawatt (MW) V90 turbine.

News & Articles

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• Vestas Receives 51-Megawatt Turbine Order for Swedish Wind Farm
  Vestas Wind Systems A/S (VWS) , Europe’s biggest wind-turbine maker, agreed to provide 51 megawatts of systems for a power plant at a Swedish paper mill.
  June 20, 2013 - Bloomberg
• India’s Welspun Gets Funding for 20-Megawatt Solar Plant
  Welspun Energy Ltd., India’s biggest developer of solar projects, arranged 1.35 billion rupees ($23 million) of debt funding for a 20-megawatt plant in Maharashtra state in the west of the country.
  June 20, 2013 - Bloomberg
• Negev Energy Wins Solar-Power Plant Tender in Southern Israel
  The 121-megawatt Ashalim facility is due to start operating in the second half of 2017 and will sell power at 0.76 shekel a kilowatt-hour, Israel’s Finance Ministry said today in an e-mailed statement.
  June 20, 2013 - Bloomberg

Quotes

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• Bob Debus in NEWS.com.au
  I have written to police ministers calling on them to put in place legislation which imposes fines and jail terms for possessing pointers above one megawatt without an appropriate exemption,Mr Debus said.
• Anna Bligh in The Age
  We're going to build a 10-megawatt solar thermal power station,Ms Bligh said in a statement.
• Morris Iemma in The Australian
  In fact, the total sales in NSW in 2006 exceeded 285,000 megawatt hours - higher than any other state,Mr Iemma said. "The carbon saved was the equivalent to taking almost 64,000 cars off the road. The number of customers at the end of 2006...