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How much electricity does one MetroVolt produce?
A MetroVolt unit is designed for 486 MWe of net output at the Mode-D operating point (0.61–0.84 GWe gated ceiling, labeled history); a three-unit station is roughly 1.5 GWe — city-scale firm power.
"Net electric" is the number that matters — power delivered to the grid after the plant powers itself. See engineering gain for how it's defined and MetroVolt for the full design point.
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How much power does one MetroVolt unit produce?
The frozen Mode-D operating point delivers 486 MWe of net electric output per unit on the exhaust-honest ledger (Q_eng 3.9; ~510 MWe channeling-gated), from 1.22 GW of fusion power. The hot-ion ceiling — 2.41 GW fusion, 0.61–0.84 GWe net — is gated and kept as labeled history.
What about a full station?
A three-unit station is roughly 1.5 GWe at the operating point (1.8–2.5 GWe at the gated ceiling) — enough to anchor a city or a hyperscale data-center campus.
Are these operating numbers?
No — they are design-point values validated against the open 81-analysis simulation record, on a gate-adjudicated schedule, not measurements from a built machine.