How to Use kilowatt-hour in a Sentence

kilowatt-hour

noun

• After that, the utility would pay a rate of 4.6 cents per kilowatt-hour.
  — Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2024
• Urban Hawaii had the highest, at 41.8 cents per kilowatt-hour.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2023
• One kilowatt-hour is the energy used by leaving a 40-watt bulb on for 24 hours.
  — Wayne Chang, CNN, 12 July 2023
• The average price of electricity in the US is 23 cents per kilowatt-hour.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 14 July 2023
• The kicker: Li-S batteries are expected to cost less than half the price per kilowatt-hour than Li-ion.
  — New Atlas, 6 Dec. 2024
• Public fast chargers increased from an average of 45 cents per kilowatt-hour at the end of March to 46 cents per kilowatt-hour at the end of June.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024
• In exchange, the electricity usage rate would be cut by 5 to 7 cents per kilowatt-hour.
  — Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 9 May 2024
• The Volvo nestles a 69 kilowatt-hour battery between front and rear axles, with 64 usable kWh.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Nov. 2023
• And that shows that there's been a 1 percent increase nationwide per kilowatt-hour in EV charging prices.
  — Michael Calore Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024
• For those reasons, LFP cells are less expensive per kilowatt-hour.
  — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2023
• It’s fitted with the same power source as its older cousin in Europe, a 42 kilowatt-hour nickel manganese cobalt battery.
  — Kristin Shaw, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2024
• It should be noted that the energy outputs of electric washers and dryers are measured in kilowatt-hours (kWh).
  — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 May 2023
• How much energy a heater uses is measured in kilowatt-hours, which measures the energy draw per hour of your device.
  — Gabriel Morgan, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 June 2023
• Residential rates are 24 cents per kilowatt-hour, compared with an average of 16 cents in the U.S. mainland.
  — Dánica Coto, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2024
• To find out how much any appliance will cost in your home per hour, use this formula courtesy of Homes And Gardens: Cost = (power (in watts) x time (in hours)) / 1000 x cost of one kilowatt-hour.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 11 May 2023
• The new tax will add 3 cents per kilowatt-hour of electricity charged to the vehicle, and charging station operators will add the tax to their selling prices.
  — Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2024
• While the average price for electricity in the U.S. is about 16.8 cents per kilowatt-hour, Arbor discovered a wide range between states.
  — Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 10 Dec. 2024
• Heat pumps can offer multiple kilowatt-hours of heat per kilowatt-hour of electricity, thanks to physics.
  — Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 2 July 2024
• The rate for each kilowatt-hour of electricity for all residential customers would decrease by about one-third.
  — Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2023
• The energy capacity of a battery is measured in kilowatt-hours (kWh), which is how much power, in kilowatts, can be delivered over a period of time, in hours.
  — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 30 Mar. 2023
• But crucially for the hybrid-electric Revuelto, this location leaves the car’s center tunnel vacant, so there is space there now for the car’s 3.8-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack.
  — Dan Carney, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2023
• The industry’s breakthrough price is generally considered to be about $100 per kilowatt-hour.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2023
• As the figure below shows, electricity prices per kilowatt-hour (KWH) started increasing in nearly every part of the country by early 2022.
  — Adam A. Millsap, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• Electricity costs by region Average costs in cents per kilowatt-hour.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 30 May 2023
• Adding last year's operating margin to pay part of the debt will allow the company to keep the fuel adjuster at 5 cents per kilowatt-hour without raising it in the immediate future, Petermann wrote.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
• An electric vehicle’s fuel efficiency can be measured in kilowatt-hours per 100 miles.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
• The overall cost per kilowatt-hour, the standard unit used to measure individual electricity usage, has also increased in recent years.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 5 June 2024
• Even with a quarter or more of peak capacity gone, aging battery packs still offer plenty of energy storage—20-to-90 kilowatt-hours, or up to three days' worth of electricity for the average American home.
  — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 11 June 2023
• In its standard specification, the DSR/X packs 15.2 kilowatt-hours of usable capacity into the rectangular lithium-ion battery slung low in its trellis frame.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 17 Aug. 2023
• Hybrid vehicles can qualify if their batteries have a capacity of at least seven kilowatt-hours.
  — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 18 Jan 2025