The electrical unit of power that equals one million watts or one thousand kilowatts One megawatt typically powers between 500 and 625 homes in the Pacific Northwest
Megawatt (MW) is a unit of power, is equal to one million watts, and refers to the heat output of a reactor MWe refers to electrical output
A megawatt is a million watts, sufficient power to light 10,000 100-watt bulbs, or enough electricity for around 3,000 households The watt is a unit of power, equal to one joule per second Sometimes the unit MWe, or "megawatt electric" is used to distinguish the electrical power produced by a plant from the larger amount of heat (MWt, or megawatt thermal) required to make that electricity, due to the inherent limitation on the efficiency of converting heat to electricity