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.
PkW = 0.85 (230 V) (10 amps) / 1000 = 1.96 kW. Php = 0.85 (230 V) (10 amps) / 746 = 2.62 hp. Electrical power is in general rated in watt (W) or horsepower (HP). A horsepower is a unit of power equal to 746 watts or 33,000 lb.ft per minute (or 550 lb.ft per second). A watt is equal to the power produced by a current of 1 amp across the potential difference of 1 volt. A watt is 1/746 of 1 horsepower. Even if the watt is the base unit of electrical power, it is common to rate motor power in either horsepower or kilowatts.