Convert kilowatt to megawatt
1 kW = 0.001 MW
1 kW = 0.001 MW
1 kW in every power unit
| milliwatt | 1,000,000 mW |
| watt | 1,000 W |
| kilowatt | 1 kW |
| megawatt | 0.001 MW |
| horsepower (mechanical) | 1.34 hp |
| BTU per hour | 3,410 BTU/h |
| ton of refrigeration | 0.284 ton |
How the conversion works
Multiply by 0.001 to go from kilowatt to megawatt, or divide by it to go back. Every conversion on this site routes through the SI value (W) rather than a table of pairwise factors, so a round-trip returns exactly what you started with.
Going the other way? megawatt to kilowatt — 1 MW = 1,000 kW.
kilowatt to megawatt — common values
| 1 kW | 0.001 MW |
| 2 kW | 0.002 MW |
| 3 kW | 0.003 MW |
| 5 kW | 0.005 MW |
| 10 kW | 0.01 MW |
| 15 kW | 0.015 MW |
| 20 kW | 0.02 MW |
| 25 kW | 0.025 MW |
| 50 kW | 0.05 MW |
| 75 kW | 0.075 MW |
| 100 kW | 0.1 MW |
| 250 kW | 0.25 MW |
| 500 kW | 0.5 MW |
| 1000 kW | 1 MW |