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	Gigawatt The gigawatt (symbol: GW) is a unit for measuring power corresponding to one billion (10⁹) watts. In pop culture The 1985 movie Back to the Future featured a time machine which required 1.21 gigawatts of electricity to operate. In the movie the word was pronounced with the correct but now rare "jigawatts". See Also Giga

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