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Such a weird numbering scheme... 8 million kilowatts is 8 gigawatts.

• DiabloD3 10mo ago
  kW happens to be the unit of sale for power (well, technically, the kWh), so it ironically makes sense to use it here.
  • trvz 10mo ago
    Anyone sending and receiving power through this project doesn't deal in kW.
  • jacquesm 10mo ago
    At scale that isn't true, it is either MW or GW for instantaneous power and MWh or GWh for energy.
  • tuetuopay 10mo ago
    At grid scales, kW is a rounding error. Even MW is somewhat the decimal place, especially for a country as large as China.
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  • dbeardsl 10mo ago
    "Technically"? It's just wrong and I'm not sure which they were intending. Similarly, "miles and miles per hour are different units, it's not just a technical distinction. A journalist is reporting on something they don't understand.
    • seydor 10mo ago
      are people charged for kW only? it's not like internet connections
  • beAbU 10mo ago
    Anyone well versed in the metric system can easily scale up and down the orders of magnitude, and units like "millions of kilowatts" is just tautology in the end of the day. Also, like others have pointed out, kilowatts and kilowatt-hours are most certainly not used on grid scale projects. Mega- and giga- are the standard throughout.
  • immibis 10mo ago
    Should have been 8 billion kWh per 1000 hours...
  • general1465 9mo ago
    Do you have 8 million kilobytes, or 8 gigabytes of RAM?