Sample Sentences & Example Usage. 1  Dashon Nicholas: I think itâs just kids, i think it is pretty disturbing, but this whole area down here is disturbing. 2  Howard Zinn: They'll say we're disturbing the peace,but there is no peace.What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war.
The gigawatt is equal to one billion (109) watts or 1 gigawatt = 1000 megawatts. This unit is often used for large power plants or power grids. For example, by the end of 2010 power shortages in China's Shanxi province were expected to increase to 5â6 GW and the installed capacity of wind power in Germany was 25.8 GW.
Hence if we are looking at energy where the basic unit is a watt hour (Wh) then a trillion watt hours is known as a terawatt hour (TWh) which is equivalent to 10 12 or 1,000,000,000,000 watt hours. A billionth of a metre is known as a nanometre (nm) which is equivalent to 10 -9 or 0.000000001 metres.