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American Superconductor

AMSC has demonstrated a 36.5 MW (49,000 horsepower) High-temperature superconductor (HTS) electric motor for the United States Navy, and is developing a similar 10 MW wind turbine generator through its wholly owned Austria-based subsidiary AMSC Windtech.

Bombard Renewable Energy

14.2 Megawatt Ground Mount, Single Axis Tracking System (in conjunction with SunPower).

California Valley Solar Ranch

The California Valley Solar Ranch (CVSR) is a 250- megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic power plant in the Carrizo Plain, northeast of California Valley.

Calpine

York Energy Center: a 565 megawatt natural gas–fired power plant located in Peach Bottom Township, York County, Pennsylvania

Russell City Energy Center: a 619 megawatt natural gas–fired plant which opened in Hayward, California, in 2013, in the area formerly known as Russell City, California.

Cimarron Solar Facility

The Cimarron Solar Facility is a 37 megawatt (MWp) (30 MW AC) photovoltaic solar generating facility in Colfax County, New Mexico, that uses thin film solar panels manufactured by First Solar.

Cormainville

It consists of 30 Vestas V80-2MW wind turbines with a combined nameplate capacity of 60 MW.

Coyote Valley

Metcalf Energy Center A 600 megawatt power plant located in the northern section of Coyote Valley.

Defenders of Dynatron City

Megawatt (voiced by Whoopi Goldberg in the animated series), who can shoot electric bolts

Dunston Power Station

The station was originally equipped with two turbo-alternators rated at 7.2 megawatts (MW), made by AEG of Germany, and two turbo alternators rated at 6.25 MW and 13.2 MW, made by Brown Boveri of Switzerland, for a total generating capacity of 33.85 MW.

Energy in Jordan

Proposals for the 30-40 megawatt (MW) plant at Kamshah, near Jerash, have been delayed several times over the price of electricity tariffs quoted by the winning bidder.

Foreign aid to Haiti

As part of this deal, 4 power plants will be constructed in Port-au-Prince, Cap-Haïtien, and Gonaïves, increasing the country's power production by 160 MW by the end of 2007.

German Aerospace Center

It has a capacity of eleven megawatt and it is located near Sevilla, in Sanlúcar la Mayor (Spain).

Hasdeo Thermal Power Station

The Hasdeo Thermal Power Station is a 840 megawatt (MW) coal fired power station at Korba in Chhattisgarh, India.

Hydroelectric power in Himachal Pradesh

It utilizes the tail water of Shanon Power House of Joginder Nagar project and generates 145MW per annum.

Konakovo Power Station

Konakovo Power Station (Konakovskaya GRES) is a GRES (a type of thermal power plant) with a generating capacity of 2520 Megawatt near Konakovo in Russia.

Levy County, Florida

On April 7, 2008, Progress Energy Florida of St. Petersburg announced it had authorized Shaw and Westinghouse to purchase long-lead-time materials for up to two AP1000 nuclear reactors for its Levy County plant, a greenfield plant in Levy County, producing about 1,100 MW each.

Mohave Power Station

Mohave Power Station (known also as Mohave Generating Station, or MOGS) was a 1,580-megawatt coal-fired power plant located in Laughlin, Nevada.

Nash, Newport

The village skyline has recently been transformed with the installation of two 2.5-megawatt wind turbines, on the site of chemical company Solutia UK Ltd, which will supply up to one-third of the facility's electricity needs.

Paula Fletcher

As a councillor, Fletcher rallied Toronto City Council to oppose the Portlands Energy Centre, a 550 megawatt power plant in the Port Lands district beside the Hearn Generating Station.

Pchery

It consists of two towers of 88 m in height, each equipped with a 3MW wind turbine supplied by Finnish manufacturer WinWinD.

Reißeck

four (Kraftwerk Rottau) Pelton wheels, generating a maximum electric power of 138 to 220 Megawatt each, provide an overall annual electricity production of 1013 mio Kilowatt hours.

Rudolf Schulten

The idea took root and in due course a 46 MW th (megawatt thermal) experimental pebble bed reactor (the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Versuchsreaktor, or AVR) was built at the Jülich Research Centre in Jülich, West Germany.

Solar thermal enhanced oil recovery

In October 2011, Chevron Corp. and BrightSource Energy revealed a 29-megawatt solar- to-steam facility at the Coalinga Oil Field in Fresno County, California.

Space weapon

The Soviet unmanned Polyus weapons platform was designed to be equipped with a megawatt carbon-dioxide laser.

Uranquinty Power Station

On 4 July 2008 Babcock and Brown Power announced that it had sold the 640 megawatt gas-fired Uranquinty power station in NSW for $700 million to Origin Energy.

Yellowhead Power Station

General Electric LM6000 simple cycle gas turbines for a total capacity of 138-megawatt commissioned in 2010.


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