Search
   
 
Cars
Car Manufacturers
Awards
Car Body Styles
Famous Cars
Classic Cars
Car Designers
Car Platforms
Technologies
Auto Shows
History of Cars
  The Beginnings of
Ford Motor Company

...It cost USD28,000 MORE»


History of the BMW 3 Series
Success breeds success MORE»


Internal Combustion Engine
What drives it? MORE»


Is Your Car Safe Enough?

Find out MORE»

Why buy a Hybrid Car?
Advantages and Perks MORE»

Terawatt-hour

(Redirected from TWh)

The terawatt hour (TW·h) is a unit for measuring energy. It corresponds to 1,000,000,000 kW·h (kilowatt hours). It is the amount of energy that would be produced by a 1,000,000 MW generator over a period of one hour, or a 114 MW generator over a period of approximately one year.

The terawatt hour is commonly used for large amounts of electrical energy, since it may be easier to understand in a practical context than the proper SI unit for energy, the joule, which is a watt second (W·s).

1 TW·h = 1,000,000,000 kW·h = 3,600,000,000,000,000 J.

01-04-2007 01:32:10
The contents of this article are licensed from Wikipedia.org under the
GNU Free Documentation License. How to see transparent copy