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Power stations operate a normative set of hours throughout the year depending on the type of facility. A base load coal station will operate as close as possible to these 8765 hours whilst a natural gas CCGT independent power plant will probably only operate during peak and off-peak hours
11,000 years ago to today. It includes most of the time since the end of the most recent ice age. If slip has occurred on a fault during the Holocene, the fault is commonly considered active
The amount of energy or heat that is generated when a hydrocarbon is burned (chemically combined with oxygen). It is usually expressed in terms of Btus per unit of measurement
One billion watt-hours or one million kilowatt-hours
One million kilowatt, one billion watts. Giga means one billion units. For instance 2,500 million KwH is equal 2,500 Gwh… kilo, mega, giga, tera is 1,000 each one (thus kilowatt is equal to 1000 watt, etc.)
One billion joules, approximately equal to 948,211 British thermal units. One million Btus equals 1.0546175 GJ.