Convert megawatt to horsepower (mechanical)
1 MW = 1,341.02209 hp
1 MW = 1,340 hp
1 MW in every power unit
| milliwatt | 1,000,000,000 mW |
| watt | 1,000,000 W |
| kilowatt | 1,000 kW |
| megawatt | 1 MW |
| horsepower (mechanical) | 1,340 hp |
| BTU per hour | 3,410,000 BTU/h |
| ton of refrigeration | 284 ton |
How the conversion works
Multiply by 1,341.02209 to go from megawatt to horsepower (mechanical), 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? horsepower (mechanical) to megawatt — 1 hp = 0.0007456998716 MW.
megawatt to horsepower (mechanical) — common values
| 1 MW | 1,341.0221 hp |
| 2 MW | 2,682.0442 hp |
| 3 MW | 4,023.0663 hp |
| 5 MW | 6,705.1104 hp |
| 10 MW | 13,410.221 hp |
| 15 MW | 20,115.331 hp |
| 20 MW | 26,820.442 hp |
| 25 MW | 33,525.552 hp |
| 50 MW | 67,051.104 hp |
| 75 MW | 100,576.66 hp |
| 100 MW | 134,102.21 hp |
| 250 MW | 335,255.52 hp |
| 500 MW | 670,511.04 hp |
| 1000 MW | 1,341,022.1 hp |