Mechanical horsepower (hp)
Mechanical horsepower is used in the United States and the United Kingdom for engines and machines.
History: James Watt mechanical horsepower became an Anglo-American measure for machine power.
Quickly convert mechanical horsepower to megawatts without lookup tables or manual math.
This page is focused on converting mechanical horsepower to megawatts. Type a number into the first field and the result appears immediately in the second field.
Example: 1 hp = 0.0007456999 MW. Conversion formula: result = value × 745.69987158227 / 1000000.
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Mechanical horsepower is used in the United States and the United Kingdom for engines and machines.
History: James Watt mechanical horsepower became an Anglo-American measure for machine power.
The megawatt equals one million watts and is useful for power plants, large motors, and grids.
History: the megawatt entered power engineering as a convenient unit for power plants and large installations.
Enter a value in the Mechanical horsepower field. The converter applies the formula "result = value × 745.69987158227 / 1000000" and immediately shows the result in megawatts.
1 hp = 0.0007456999 MW.
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