How to Use kilowatt-hour in a Sentence
kilowatt-hour
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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 -
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 -
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 -
Kraus, Lightship’s president, said the towable trailer’s electric powertrain has up to 80 kilowatt-hours of onboard battery capacity, which allows the trailer to propel itself.
— Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 15 Aug. 2024 -
As a result, 100 supplier facilities saved 2 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity last year.
— Justine Calma, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2024 -
The manufacturing of advanced 3nm chips may consume almost 8 billion kilowatt-hours annually.
— Rakesh Kumar, Fortune, 26 Dec. 2023 -
People living in California have been paying 32 cents per kilowatt-hour compared to the national average of 18 cents, according to Energy Sage, which has monitored energy prices nationwide.
— Jamie Joseph, Fox News, 19 Mar. 2024
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