gigawatt-hour , GWh (Abkürzung)

Picsearch plants 1000 new trees for every gigawatt-hour consumed.

LIPA said it is interested in buying renewable energy in two 150 gigawatt-hour per year blocks for a period of 10 years.

One gigawatt-hour is equal to one gigawatt being used for a period of one hour, or one megawatt being used for 1000 hours.

A million units, designated MU, is a gigawatt-hour and a BU (billion units) is a terawatt-hour.

A 2013 study by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory concluded that the average large photovoltaic plant in the United States occupied 3.1 acres of permanently disturbed area and 3.4 acres of total site area per gigawatt-hour per year.

He concluded that wind farms and nuclear power stations are responsible each for between 0.3 and 0.4 fatalities per gigawatt-hour (GWh) of electricity while fossil-fueled power stations are responsible for about 5.2 fatalities per GWh.