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.
If this takes 1 min to boil the power required to boil the water equals 96kilo joules/60 seconds =1600 watts or 1.6 kilo watts. Dividing this by 60 into minutes and then by 60 again into hours gives the answer in kilo watt hours as what appears on your energy bill. 0.444 kilo watt hours.