{"id":39526,"date":"2020-06-18T01:54:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T01:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=39526"},"modified":"2020-06-18T01:54:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T01:54:10","slug":"energy-electricity-generation-units-mwe-vs-mwt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/energy-electricity-generation-units-mwe-vs-mwt\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy: electricity generation units: MWe vs MWt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about electricity and energy: the tutor mentions some units new to him.<\/h2>\n<p>\nAt an electricity generation plant, MWt means &#8220;megawatts thermal.&#8221; It measures the energy input. MWe means &#8220;megawatts electrical.&#8221; It&#8217;s the output.\n<\/p>\n<p>When burning fossil fuel such as coal to generate electricity, heat input is relevant. It&#8217;s not with wind or hydroelectric generation.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/energyeducation.ca\/encyclopedia\/Megawatts_electric\">energyeducation.ca<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about electricity and energy: the tutor mentions some units new to him. At an electricity generation plant, MWt means &#8220;megawatts thermal.&#8221; It measures the energy input. MWe means &#8220;megawatts electrical.&#8221; It&#8217;s the output. When burning fossil fuel such as &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/energy-electricity-generation-units-mwe-vs-mwt\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Energy: electricity generation units: MWe vs MWt<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1023,384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electricity","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39528,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39526\/revisions\/39528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}