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.
No. 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'.
There is no such thing as a megawatt (not 'mega watt') per hour, so what exactly are you asking?
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
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.
"mega-" = one million, so 1 megawatt = 1 000 000 watts. So 10 mW = 10 000 000 W.
8,000 since 8000*1000(kilo)=8,000,000 (mega)
The abbreviation for Megawatt hour is MWh.
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.
You can't convert between these units. Tons per hour is a (truly archaic) measure of cooling capacity. Megawatts is a measure of power.
A megawatt ('MW', not 'Mw') is used to measure power, which is the rate at which you use energy.A megawatt hour ('MW.h', not 'mwh') is used to measure energy, and is defined as 'the amount of energy consumed, per hour, at a rate of one megawatt'.
There are 1000 kilowatt-hours in a megawatt-hour.
Watt, kilowatt, or megawatt are units of power (energy/time). A watt is 1 joule/second. A kilowatt is a thousand joules per second. A kilowatt is also 1 kWh/hour (kilowatt-hour / hour). Since you would usually pay per kilowatt-hour, you might be more interested in the number of kilowatt-hours. A megawatt is a million joules per second - or a thousand kWh/hour.
The unit megawatt-day is not a standard energy unit. It is a unit used to measure the production or consumption of electricity over a period of one day at a constant power output of one megawatt. It is often used in the context of power plant capacity or energy generation forecasts.
One megawatt is equal to 1,000 kilowatts (kW), so one megawatt-hour (MWh) is equivalent to 1,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh).
None. They are used to measure two different quantities. The BTU is used to measure energy while the megawatt is used to measure power. Two different units for measuring two different quantities.A Megawatt-hour is a measure of energy that is equivalent to about 3.45 million BTUs. Or 1 Megawatt is equivalent to 3.45 million BTU per hour.
There is no such thing as a megawatt (not 'mega watt') per hour, so what exactly are you asking?
The abbreviation of "megawatt" is "MW."
To calculate tph to megawatts you need to know how many tph are in one megawatts. The equation is 1 mw is equal to 4 tph.