Enter real power in watts and a power factor to calculate the apparent power in kilovolt-amps.
How to Use the Watts to Kilovolt-Amps Calculator
Real power in watts and a power factor decimal go in; apparent power in kVA comes out, scaled down from the intermediate VA figure so the result stays readable at generator or panel scale.
VA = W ÷ PF
kVA = VA ÷ 10001,500 W at a 0.75 power factor works out to 2,000 VA first, then 2.0 kVA once the kilo-prefix is applied. Writing it as two steps rather than one combined line is deliberate — collapsing "divide by PF" and "divide by 1000" into a single mental operation is exactly where an order-of-magnitude slip creeps in, and a result that should read 2.0 kVA showing up as 2,000 instead is a thousand-fold error hiding behind a plausible-looking number.
This one crosses the widest gap in the whole family: watts is the smallest real-power unit here, kVA the largest apparent-power one. A single wall appliance rated in watts and a facility-level generator rated in kVA rarely get compared directly, but the exact same formula bridges them regardless of which end of the scale either number started at.
Only need to know the real power without leaving watts, or already have kW instead? The kVA to Watts and Kilowatts to Kilovolt-Amps calculators cover those neighboring conversions.