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.
A kilowatt is simply 1,000 watts, which is a measure of power. So, for example, the 10,000 watt electric shower in the top bullet point above could also be called a 10 kilowatt shower. A kilowatt hour (kWh) is a measure of energy. So a 1,000 watt drill needs 1,000 watts (1 kW) of power to make it work, and uses 1 kWh of energy in an hour. Thatâs why, if you leave a TV or computer on standby, it is still using power and creating a kWh cost on your energy bill.