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 average cost of electricity in the US is 16.94 cents per kilowatt-hour.
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Namely, the rear trunk seemed a little less roomy than expected, with a high floor that looked to house additional battery cells for the 91 kilowatt-hour extended range pack.
    Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes, 31 Dec. 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
  • As of writing, residents of the Big Apple are paying Con Edison about $0.31 per kilowatt-hour of electricity.
    New Atlas, 7 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Asana ranked Idaho as fourth-best overall in the cost-of-living category, with the average residential electricity price in the state at $0.12 per kilowatt-hour, according to EnergyBot.com.
    Vincent Medina, Idaho Statesman, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Nuclear energy is the largest source of clean power in the U.S., generating nearly 775 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity each year.
    Emma Withrow, Baltimore Sun, 18 Dec. 2024

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