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tera-watt-hour
tera-watt adj. and n.
Brit. 
/ˈtɛrəwɒt/
, /ˈtɛrəwɒt/U.S. /ˈtɛrəˌwɑt/
(hence tera-watt-hour, tera-watt-year)./ˈtɛrəˌwɑt/ΘΚΠ
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tera-watt1970
1970 Britannica Bk. of Year 322/2 It had an output of 4 trillion watts (4 terawatts).
1972 Physics Bull. Mar. 175/2 The terawatt carbon dioxide laser may not be far away.
1979 Internat. Atomic Energy Agency Bull. Jan. 7 Let us consider two scenarios which would lead to a total primary energy consumption rate of 50 terawatts (50 000 000 MW) at the end of the next century.
1979 Times 11 Dec. 18 The American Department of Energy, Dr Musgrove says,..could economically produce 500 tera-watt-hours (500 million mega-watt-hours) of electricity.
1980 Sci. Amer. Sept. 111/1 From the base year of the IIASA study (1975) to 2030 the total primary-energy consumption rate is projected to rise from 8.2 terawatt-years per year to 36 terawatt-years per year in the high-growth scenario and to 22 terawatt-years per year in the low-growth one.
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