Synonym: kW. Similar words: kilo, kilogram, kilometer, allowance, watt, megawatt, in low water, at that time. Meaning: ['kɪləʊwɑt /-wɒt] n. a unit of power equal to 1000 watts.
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1) The plant affected, a 500,000 kilowatt pressurized light water reactor, began operation in 1972.
2) It takes about a kilowatt per person to maintain a technologically advanced civilization with a high standard of living.
3) They pay thirty fen per kilowatt hour.
4) A kilowatt is 1000 watt.
5) The cost per kilowatt hour of solar power is figured by estimating the total power output of the solar panel over its 20- to 25-year warranty.
6) To reach the 100 kilowatt target, the laser will require six modules.
7) Devices called kilowatt - hour meters are used to measure this intangible electrical energy delivered to customers.
8) It creates four times more jobs per kilowatt hour generated than fossil fuel such as coal.
9) A coal-water facility has been assigned the $ 11 per kilowatt figure for a coal-oil mixture plant.
10) For example, 500, 000 was used in generating the cost per kilowatt of coal-natural gas units.
11) People who are behind with their electricity bills could find themselves restricted to a consumption of as little as one kilowatt.
12) Let us compare that cost with the average cost in the Tennessee Valley of $ 166 per kilowatt of capacity.
13) This year there are 10 suppliers charging an average of 5.9 cents a kilowatt hour.
14) This is a saving compared to the $ 116 per kilowatt figure for a new coal boiler.
15) The Building Research Establishment give the following figures for the emission of carbon dioxide per kilowatt hour for different energy sources.
16) The coal-water mixture approach is assigned a $ 20 per kilowatt figure.
17) It used capacity charges to directly recoup costs of building plant,[http://sentencedict.com/kilowatt.html] and then it sold electricity by the kilowatt hour.
18) For four additional options considered, boiler conversion costs are estimated at $ 47 per kilowatt.
19) In another measure, the plant used 282 grams of coal per kilowatt hour of electricity produced, versus a China average of 345 grams per kilowatt hour.
20) It cooked the remote - controlled aircraft using a somewhat feeble 1 - kilowatt beam.
21) The calculation is based on recent laws that encourage the development of renewable energy in China and a guaranteed price of 7.6 US cents per kilowatt hour of electricity for the next ten years.
22) The production of hydrogen from methane in converters will generate higher CO2 emissions per kilowatt hour since [hydrogen production] is an energy-intensive process.
23) Coal, with its emissions of sulphur, mercury and soot, will continue to kill far more people per kilowatt hour than nuclear does.
24) Ideally, that demonstration facility would hit a cost of 5 cents or lower per kilowatt, giving coal-fired plants a run for their money.
25) When oil prices hit $147 a barrel a year ago, electricity rates approached or briefly exceeded 50 cents per kilowatt hour on Maui and Kauai, about five times the national average.
26) As a result, it costs the government almost 8 cents for each kilowatt hour of power produced by the wind farm, about 50 percent more than the government pays for electricity produced by coal.
27) By comparison, the grid buys electricity from coal-fired power plants for 4 to 5 cents a kilowatt hour.
28) In Japan, 418 grams of carbon dioxide are emitted per kilowatt hour and in the US, the equivalent figure is 625 grams. But most of the top 10 firms in China produce 752 grams of CO2.
29) Last winter, winning bidders for three projects agreed to sell power to the national power grid for about 59 cents a kilowatt hour.
30) The most important advantage of the gasoline engine is its lower weight per kilowatt.