Watt to Kilowatt Conversion

Watt : The watt is a unit for power, is one of SI Units. Its name is in honor of the Scottish engineer James Watt, the eighteenth-century developer of the steam engine. The unit symbol for watt is W, defined as one joule per second, measures the rate of energy conversion or transfer.

Kilowatt : The kilowatt is a unit of power which is a multiple of the unit watt. It equals to one thousand watts. The unit kilowatt is commonly used to express the electromagnetic power output of broadcast radio and television transmitters. One kilowatt of power approximately equals 1.34 horsepower. The unit symbol for kilowatt is kW.