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kilowatt
[ kil-uh-wot ]
kilowatt
/ ˈkɪləʊˌwɒt /
noun
- one thousand watts kW
kilowatt
/ kĭl′ə-wŏt′ /
- A unit of power equal to 1,000 watts.
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Under the current rate structure, rooftop solar owners make 30 cents per kilowatt but Thursday’s proposal, according to the California Solar and Storage Association, would cut that rate to about 8 cents per kilowatt hour.
In order to store and deliver electricity competitively, you need a battery that costs about 20 dollars per kilowatt hour.
For example, traditional saunas that use steam typically take at least 10 minutes to an hour to fully heat up, and the total wattage can generally be calculated using cost per kilowatt.
The electrical system regularly failed and tenants said the landlord charged them an extra 7 cents, on top of the power company’s rate, for every kilowatt hour they used.
This spike-based approach is vastly more energy efficient, which is why training the most powerful AI requires kilowatts of electricity while the brain uses just 20 watts.
Over the course of a year, the 75-watt incandescent uses 82 kilowatt hours of electricity, costing $11.48.
It's going in at ten kilovolts, so that's a five billion kilowatt supply.
One gram of lithium hydride would give nearly fifty-eight kilowatt-hours of energy in one blast.
The rental charges are nominal in amount, the maximum being about 1/16 of a cent per kilowatt hour.
Kilowatts—Your electric bill usually reads in kilowatt hours.
Volts times amperes equals (watts) (kilowatt hours) (alternating current).
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