It's a question of scale. A gigaWatt is 1000 megaWatts, so if you subtract one, you are left with 999 megaWatts.
A 1 megawatt plant can produce 720,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per month if operating at full capacity for 30 days. This is calculated by multiplying the plant's capacity (1 megawatt) by the number of hours in a month (720 hours) to get the total kilowatt-hours produced.
Earth Hour 2011 estimated to have saved about 2,100 megawatt-hours of electricity worldwide, equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of a small city.
Earth Hour 2010 was estimated to have saved around 700 megawatt hours of electricity worldwide. This is roughly equivalent to the energy consumed by 300,000 homes in an hour.
MW stands for megawatts. "mw" (in lower case) stands for milliwatts, however.CommentThe SI convention is that is a unit of measurement is named after someone, then its symbol is always capitalised. So, the symbol for watt is an upper-case 'W'. So, the correct symbol for milliwatt is mW and the correct symbol for megawatt is MW.
To convert kelvin to Celsius, subtract 273.15 from kelvin. So if you are at 273.15 kelvin, you are at zero degrees Celsius. The above is almost true. 0 degrees Kelvin is equivalent to (minus) - 273.15 degrees Celsius. So you would need to add that amount to reveal the temperature in degrees Celsius.
The next category higher than megawatt-hours is gigawatt-hours.
1000. A megawatt-hour is the energy you'd get with a megawatt of power for 1 hour. Energy = power * time. It's important to note that it's 'megawatt hour' and not megawatt/hour (ie. it's not megawatt per hour).A gigawatt has 1000 times the power of a megawatt. Thus, since the time is the same (both 1 hour), a gigawatt-hour = 1000 megawatt hours.
a kilowatt is 1000 watts a megawatt is 1000000 watts a gigawatt is 1000000000 watts a terrawatt is 1000000000000 or a million million watts
A gigawatt-hour is a unit of energy equal to one billion watt-hours, while a megawatt is a unit of power equal to one million watts. The main difference is that gigawatt-hour measures energy capacity over time, whereas megawatts measure power output at a specific moment.
The SI unit for power is the watt. Commonly, either the watt or some multiple or submultiple is used for power, for example kilowatt, megawatt, gigawatt, milliwatt, etc.
The SI unit for power is the watt. Commonly, either the watt or some multiple or submultiple is used for power, for example kilowatt, megawatt, gigawatt, milliwatt, etc.
The symbol for gigawatt is GW.
The correct term is kilowatt-hour, or some multiple of that. One plant that I worked at could net 800 megawatts, so that would be about 576 gigawatt-hours, in a 30 day month. Some plants are larger. I know of some 1,200 megawatt plants, and that would be scaled accordingly, as 864 gigawatt-hours, both assuming continuous operation at full power. Scaled to the units requested in the original question, that 800 megawatt plant would be 800,000 kilowatt-months, and the 1,200 megawatt plant would be 1,200,000 kilowatt-months.
The abbreviation of "megawatt" is "MW."
The number of homes a gigawatt can power depends on the energy consumption of each home. On average, a gigawatt can power around 700,000 homes for one hour.
A megawatt is 1000 kilowatts (also equal to 1341 horse power) or 1*10^6 watts, a gigawatt is 1000 megawatts. A watt is equal to one joule per second and a joule is defined as the amount of work done when 1 ampre of electrical current is passed through 1 ohm of resistance. Ohm is defined as the amount of electrical resistance of a conductor in which 1 ampre of current is produced by a potential of 1 volt across its terminals.
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