gigawatt
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The gigawatt is 10⁹ watts, exact by prefix. It is the scale of large power stations and of national grid demand: a big nuclear unit is about 1 GW, and a mid-sized country peaks at a few tens.
| 1 | 1,000,000,000 |
One gigawatt in every power unit
| 1.00000e+18 | nanowatt (nW) | |
| 1.00000e+16 | erg per second (erg/s) | |
| 1.00000e+15 | microwatt (μW) | |
| 1,000,000,000,000 | milliwatt (mW) | |
| 44,253,700,000 | foot pound-force per minute (ft·lbf/min) | |
| 3,412,140,000 | BTU per hour (BTU/h) | |
| 1,000,000,000 | watt (W) | |
| 859,845,000 | kilocalorie per hour (kcal/h) | |
| 737,562,000 | foot pound-force per second (ft·lbf/s) | |
| 3,412,140 | thousand BTU per hour (MBH) | |
| 1,359,620 | metric horsepower (PS) | |
| 1,341,020 | horsepower (mechanical) (hp) | |
| 1,340,480 | electrical horsepower (hp (elec)) | |
| 1,000,000 | kilowatt (kW) | |
| 284,345 | ton of refrigeration (ton) | |
| 101,942 | boiler horsepower (bhp) | |
| 3,412.14 | million BTU per hour (MMBTU/h) | |
| 1,000 | megawatt (MW) | |
| 1 | gigawatt (GW)this unit | |
| 0.001 | terawatt (TW) | |
| 2.61233e-18 | solar luminosity (Lsun) |
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