Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation kilowatt-hour
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- noun
kilowatt-hour
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Examples
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Re jmo at 36: “How much energy, in kWh, would you estimate it takes to build a wind turbine?”
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Wind/solar will dispatch into the system, basically, no matter the price being offered since once constructed, every kWh is essentially free.
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How much energy, in kWh, would you estimate it takes to build a wind turbine?
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Total energy use (measured in kWh and obtained from each factory’s utility bills) is divided by footwear production.
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Total energy use (measured in kWh and obtained from each factory’s utility bills) is divided by footwear production.
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Further, “total operating costs over the lifetime of the unit” are estimated at about $0.12/kWh, which is comparable to current retail electrical rates.
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Gasoline is 36.5 kWh per gallon, and if you get 30 miles per gallon, then you're getting about 0.8 miles per kWh, which is just a rotten efficiency, but of course the energy content of gasoline is about 13 kWh/kg clobbering batteries.
A 200 mile EV or a 13 mile PHEV? You choose. Venkat's Energy Blog 2010
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Our current house is staggeringly energy-hungry, requiring 9.2 BTU/ft2/kWh, which is only moderately more efficient than stringing up tarps under a bridge.
Waldo Jaquith - Rethinking Virginia’s energy infrastructure. 2007
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The result is that Greenpeace says that the energy consumption of cloud computing in 2007 was 622.6 billion kWh, which is 1.3 times larger than reported by the Smart 2020 report.
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The result is that Greenpeace says that the energy consumption of cloud computing in 2007 was 622.6 billion kWh, which is 1.3 times larger than reported by the Smart 2020 report.
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