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Mega means million and a watt is a unit of power. A megawatt hour is the amount of power used if 1,000,000 watts are used for 1 hour, or 1 watt is used for 1,000,000 hours. If 100 light bulbs each using 1,000 watts of power are turned on for 10 hours, they will use 100 x 1,000 x 10 watt hours = 1,000,000 watt hours = 1 megawatt hour. Most electric companies charge for the number of kilowatt hours used. A megawatt hour is 1,000 kilowatt hours.
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FranNo. You can thnk of a megawatt hour as the number of megawatts that have been used in one hour.
A megawatt is a measure of power. A megawatt is 1,000,000 watts or 106 watts. A Watt is the same as a Joule/second.
A megawatt hour is a measure of energy. One megawatt hour is (106 watts)*(3600 seconds) or 3.6 * 109 watt seconds. Since a watt is a joule/second a megawatt hour is also 3.6 * 109 joules with the joule being the SI unit for energy.
CommentYou cannot 'use' watts or megawatts. A watt is simply the rate at which you 'use' energy. So, the first sentence of the above answer should read: "You can think of a megawatt hour as the amount of energy used in one hour at the rate of one megawatt'.
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How much units produce one mega watt powerplant per hour?
There is no such thing as a megawatt (not 'mega watt') per hour, so what exactly are you asking?
What is 5793.553 megawatts-hours to megawatts?
The megawatt-hour is unit of energy. The megawatt is unit of power. So, conversion is impossible.Let me know 5793.553 megawatts-hour (assume E) were obtained over what period of time in hours (assume T), then the average value for the megawatts (assume P) is:P = E / T
How much energy is 1 Megawatt?
First of all, a megawatt is not a unit of energy. It is a unit of power, or the rate at which energy is used. 1 watt corresponds to 1 joule per second. For example, a sixty watt lightbulb uses 60 joules of energy per second. So a megawatt is one million watts, or one million joules of energy per second. Electrical energy is often measured in kilowatt-hours by the electric company (So that they know how much to charge you). This is equivalent to the amount of energy that a kilowatt power source could supply in one hour. The amount of energy in joules that a kilowatt hour is goes as follows: 1 kilowatt = 1000 watts, so 1000 joules per second. Multiply this by the number of seconds in an hour, and you have 3600000J.
How many watts in a mega watt of electricity?
"mega-" = one million, so 1 megawatt = 1 000 000 watts. So 10 mW = 10 000 000 W.
How many kilowatt hours in a 8 Megawatt power generation plant?
8,000 since 8000*1000(kilo)=8,000,000 (mega)
