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Gigawatts (GW) - Power / Electricity Conversions

A gigawatt is a unit of power in the International System of Units (SI). The symbol for gigawatt is GW.

The base unit for a gigawatt is watt and the prefix is giga. The prefix giga is derived from the Greek γίγας meaning giant and is symbolized as G. Giga denotes a factor of a billion (109) which means that there are 1,000,000,000 watts in a gigawatt.

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