What is a Watt, a Megawatt, and a Kilowatt?
A watt is single measurable unit of electricity, an example would be a 100 watt light bulb. It takes a 100 watts to light that bulb up for one hour.
Watts(W) are the yardstick for measuring power.
Watts hours (WH) measures the total usage for a period of time.
A Kilowatt is 1000 watts.
A Megawatt (MW) is one million watts.
So one megawatt could power a 100 watt light bulb for 10,000 hours.
The two major wind farms located in Nolan County Texas, near the towns of Sweetwater and Roscoe, produce a combined 1531.5 megawatts
enough energy to light a 100 watt light bulb for 15,315,000 hours.
There are 8765.81278 Hours in a year
So that could keep one 100 watt light bulb lit for 1,747 years.
Wow………..very impressive