Convert megawatt to horsepower (mechanical)
1 MW = 1,341.02209 hp
1 MW = 1,341 hp
1 MW in every power unit
| nanowatt | 1.0000e+15 nW |
| erg per second | 10,000,000,000,000 erg/s |
| microwatt | 1,000,000,000,000 μW |
| milliwatt | 1,000,000,000 mW |
| foot pound-force per minute | 44,254,000 ft·lbf/min |
| BTU per hour | 3,412,100 BTU/h |
| watt | 1,000,000 W |
| kilocalorie per hour | 859,850 kcal/h |
| foot pound-force per second | 737,560 ft·lbf/s |
| thousand BTU per hour | 3,412.1 MBH |
| metric horsepower | 1,359.6 PS |
| horsepower (mechanical) | 1,341 hp |
| electrical horsepower | 1,340.5 hp (elec) |
| kilowatt | 1,000 kW |
| ton of refrigeration | 284.35 ton |
| boiler horsepower | 101.94 bhp |
| million BTU per hour | 3.4121 MMBTU/h |
| megawatt | 1 MW |
| gigawatt | 0.001 GW |
| terawatt | 0.000001 TW |
| solar luminosity | 2.6123e-21 Lsun |
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 |