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