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Watt-minutes to Gigawatt-hours conversion

Watt-minutes to Gigawatt-hours conversion table

Watt-minutes (Wm)	Gigawatt-hours (GWh)
0	0
1	1.6666666666667e-11
2	3.3333333333333e-11
3	5e-11
4	6.6666666666667e-11
5	8.3333333333333e-11
6	1e-10
7	1.1666666666667e-10
8	1.3333333333333e-10
9	1.5e-10
10	1.6666666666667e-10
20	3.3333333333333e-10
30	5e-10
40	6.6666666666667e-10
50	8.3333333333333e-10
60	1e-9
70	1.1666666666667e-9
80	1.3333333333333e-9
90	1.5e-9
100	1.6666666666667e-9
1000	1.6666666666667e-8

How to convert watt-minutes to gigawatt-hours?

To convert watt-minutes to gigawatt-hours, we can follow these steps:

Start with the watt-minutes value.
Convert watt-minutes to watt-hours.
Convert watt-hours to kilowatt-hours (kWh).
Convert kilowatt-hours to megawatt-hours (MWh).
Finally, convert megawatt-hours to gigawatt-hours (GWh).

Let's go through the conversion for 1 watt-minute:

Convert watt-minutes to watt-hours: 1 watt-minute = 1 watt × (1 minute / 60 minutes) = 1 watt / 60 watt-hours = 0.0166667 watt-hours.
Convert watt-hours to kilowatt-hours: 0.0166667 watt-hours × (1 kilowatt / 1000 watts) = 0.0000166667 kilowatt-hours.
Convert kilowatt-hours to megawatt-hours: 0.0000166667 kilowatt-hours × (1 megawatt / 1000 kilowatts) = 0.0000000166667 megawatt-hours.
Convert megawatt-hours to gigawatt-hours: 0.0000000166667 megawatt-hours × (1 gigawatt / 1000 megawatts) = 0.0000000000166667 gigawatt-hours.

So, 1 watt-minute is equivalent to 0.0000000000166667 gigawatt-hours.

Real World Examples for Other Quantities of Watt-minutes:

60 watt-minutes (1 watt-hour):
- Equivalent to 0.00000000166667 gigawatt-hours.
- Example: Running a small 1-watt LED light for 1 hour.
90 watt-minutes (1.5 watt-hours):
- Equivalent to 0.0000000025 gigawatt-hours.
- Example: Using a small hand-held electronic device consuming 1.5 watts for 1 hour.
600 watt-minutes (10 watt-hours):
- Equivalent to 0.0000000166667 gigawatt-hours.
- Example: Running a 10-watt LED light bulb for 1 hour.
36,000 watt-minutes (600 watt-hours):
- Equivalent to 0.000000166667 gigawatt-hours.
- Example: Using a desktop computer that consumes 600 watts for one hour.
1,800,000 watt-minutes (30,000 watt-hours or 30 kilowatt-hours):
- Equivalent to 0.00003 gigawatt-hours.
- Example: The amount of energy an average household in the US might use in a day.
2,592,000,000 watt-minutes (43,200,000 watt-hours or 43.2 megawatt-hours):
- Equivalent to 0.0432 gigawatt-hours.
- Example: The energy, approximately, used by a small data center in a typical day.

By understanding these conversions, you can better grasp how small units of energy (like watt-minutes) scale up to much larger units (like gigawatt-hours), which is often necessary for large-scale energy management and consumption considerations.

See below section for step by step unit conversion with formulas and explanations. Please refer to the table below for a list of all the Gigawatt-hours to other unit conversions.

What is watt-minutes?

A great question about a useful unit of energy measurement!

Watt-minutes, also known as Watt-hours (Wh) or kilowatt-hours (kWh), is a unit of energy that measures the amount of electrical energy used or produced.

One watt-minute is equivalent to one joule (J) of energy. Since there are 60 minutes in an hour, one Wh (or kwh) is equal to:

1 Wh = 3.6 kilojoules (kJ)
1 kWh = 3,600 kiljoules (kJ)

Watt-minutes is a convenient unit for measuring energy consumption or production over time, especially in the context of electricity usage. For example, if you want to know how much electricity your household used over the course of an hour, the watt-minute measurement would be a useful way to express that value.

In everyday life, watt-minutes are commonly used by:

Utilities and energy providers to measure customer consumption
Electric vehicles (EVs) to estimate range or charge time based on available battery capacity
Appliances and devices to display their power consumption ratings

I hope this helps you understand the concept of watt-minutes!

What is gigawatt-hours?

A Gigawatt-hour is a unit of energy and its units, GWh, are formed with W for watt and h for hour from SI unit system combined with letter G, metric prefix, for 1,000,000,000 or $10^9$ . Its definition, in the context of electricity, is the energy of one watt power flowing for one hour.

Followings equivalent equations are identical but in different units. Please note that factor $10^9$ is representing Giga prefix in GWh unit.

1 GWh = 10^9*Pt = 10^9*IVt = 3600 * 10^9*J = 2.247 * 10^{22} * 10^9 eV = 8.598*10^5 * 10^9 cal

$P - Power$
$t - Time \text{ (in hours. Multiply by 3600 to convert to seconds)}$
$I - Current$ $V - Volts$
$J - Joules$
$eV - Electronvolt$
$cal - Calories$

Wikipedia page for Kilowatt-hour (watt-hour redirected to kWh) UCI article on Energy Units and Conversions Ian Woofenden's explanation on difference between Watts and Watt-Hours

Complete Watt-minutes conversion table

Enter # of Watt-minutes

Convert 1 Wm to other units	Result
Watt-minutes to Watt-seconds (Wm to Ws)	60
Watt-minutes to Watt-hours (Wm to Wh)	0.01666666666667
Watt-minutes to Milliwatt-hours (Wm to mWh)	16.666666666667
Watt-minutes to Kilowatt-hours (Wm to kWh)	0.00001666666666667
Watt-minutes to Megawatt-hours (Wm to MWh)	1.6666666666667e-8
Watt-minutes to Gigawatt-hours (Wm to GWh)	1.6666666666667e-11
Watt-minutes to Joules (Wm to J)	60
Watt-minutes to Kilojoules (Wm to kJ)	0.06
Watt-minutes to Megajoules (Wm to MJ)	0.00006
Watt-minutes to Gigajoules (Wm to GJ)	6e-8
Watt-minutes to calories (Wm to cal)	14.34034416826
Watt-minutes to Kilocalories (Wm to kcal)	0.01434034416826

Watt-minutes to Gigawatt-hours conversion