Convert kilowatt to watt
1 kW = 1,000 W
1 kW = 1,000 W
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 1,000 to go from kilowatt to watt, 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? watt to kilowatt — 1 W = 0.001 kW.
kilowatt to watt — common values
| 1 kW | 1,000 W |
| 2 kW | 2,000 W |
| 3 kW | 3,000 W |
| 5 kW | 5,000 W |
| 10 kW | 10,000 W |
| 15 kW | 15,000 W |
| 20 kW | 20,000 W |
| 25 kW | 25,000 W |
| 50 kW | 50,000 W |
| 75 kW | 75,000 W |
| 100 kW | 100,000 W |
| 250 kW | 250,000 W |
| 500 kW | 500,000 W |
| 1000 kW | 1,000,000 W |