terawatt

unit of measurement

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In tidal power: Electricity generation potential
…21,000 terawatt-hours in 2016 (one terawatt [TW] = one trillion watts), energy experts speculate that fully built-out tidal power systems could supply much of this demand in the future. Estimates of tidal stream power—which uses ocean currents to drive underwater blades in a manner similar to wind power generation—in shallow…
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