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Considering it is kw for kilowatt and not kv. 1 megawatt = 1000 kilowatt.
"Watt" is a rate of using energy. It means "one joule per second"."One megawatt per year" means "One million joules per second per year".Clearly, it has no physical meaning.One megawatt-year is equal to roughly 31.56 megajoules. (rounded)One megajoule per year is equal to roughly 0.0317 watt. (rounded)
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.
1 horsepower is 746 watts. You would need approximately 1340.5 horsepower to produce 1 megawatt of energy. That's a lot of horses!
Mega means "million." So any whole mega would contain at least six zeroes. 1 megawatt = 1,000,000 watts.