What is a Kilowatt-Hour Anyway?
When you visit your butcher to pick up some chicken for the weekend barbecue, your poultry purchase will be priced in a system of pounds and ounces. When you power-up your hair dryer in the morning, your purchase of electric energy will be priced in “kilowatt-hours.” Technically, one kilowatt-hour is equal to the electrical consumption of 1,000 watts over a period of 1 hour. Probably the easiest way to define a kilowatt-hour is to use an example to which we can all relate. You wake up late for work. You’re into the shower and out the front door in record time — but wait, you forgot to turn off your bathroom light. Now, lets say that your bathroom fixture takes a single 100-watt light bulb. That bulb consumes 100 watts of electricity per hour. If you left that bulb burning for 10 continuous hours (100 watts consumed per hour times 10 hours equals 1,000 watt-hours), that single light bulb would have consumed a single “kilowatt-hour” of electricity. Back to Customer Service FAQs.
