First of all, a megawatt is not a unit of energy. It is a unit of power, or the rate at which energy is used. 1 watt corresponds to 1 joule per second. For example, a sixty watt lightbulb uses 60 joules of energy per second. So a megawatt is one million watts, or one million joules of energy per second. Electrical energy is often measured in kilowatt-hours by the electric company (So that they know how much to charge you). This is equivalent to the amount of energy that a kilowatt power source could supply in one hour. The amount of energy in joules that a kilowatt hour is goes as follows: 1 kilowatt = 1000 watts, so 1000 joules per second. Multiply this by the number of seconds in an hour, and you have 3600000J.
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Mega means million and a watt is a unit of power. A megawatt hour is the amount of power used if 1,000,000 watts are used for 1 hour, or 1 watt is used for 1,000,000 hours. If 100 light bulbs each using 1,000 watts of power are turned on for 10 hours, they will use 100 x 1,000 x 10 watt hours = 1,000,000 watt hours = 1 megawatt hour. Most electric companies charge for the number of kilowatt hours used. A megawatt hour is 1,000 kilowatt hours.
That is impossible to answer. There are many kinds of chemical energy and each costs a different amount. AA batteries are chemical energy. A car battery is chemical energy. Gasoline is chemical energy. Food is chemical energy.
The term, 'electricity', is a generic, all-encompassing term for a branch of science. Electricity, therefore, isn't a quantity, so it cannot be measured.A megawatt is an unit of measurement for power, the rate of transfer of energy.
"mega-" = one million, so 1 megawatt = 1 000 000 watts. So 10 mW = 10 000 000 W.
The megawatt-hour is unit of energy. The megawatt is unit of power. So, conversion is impossible.Let me know 5793.553 megawatts-hour (assume E) were obtained over what period of time in hours (assume T), then the average value for the megawatts (assume P) is:P = E / T