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.
So anybody who does talk about energy, rarely speaks in Joules. We instead multiply power back by time again and have the unit, the kilowatt-hour. A kilowatt, a thousand Joules/second, times 3600 seconds in an hour, is 3,600,000 Joules - 3.6 megaJoules (MJ).e all know the Watt is a unit of power consumption and have an idea how quickly a 1500 Watt kettle boils water. The unit of energy is the Joule - a Watt is just a flow of one Joule per second. The other popular unit of power is the horsepower.