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Gigawatts to Watts - Convert gw to w

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Gigawatts (gw) Conversion

A gigawatt is a unit of power in the metric system which is about 1.341 million horsepower and equal to one billion watts.

Watts (w) Conversion

A watt is an SI derived unit of power, used in electricity and mechanics, and is defined as one joule of work per second (unit of time). Referring to electricity, it is the power produced by a current of one ampere flowing through an electric potential of one volt. The unit is named after the Scottish inventor James Watt.

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