Kilowatt Hour

A kilowatt hour is a unit of electricity that we are charged for in our homes and for electric vehicles.  It's like a gallon of gas but for electricity.  Every device in your home from televisions to power tools has a power rating that refers to how many kilowatt hours of energy they'll consume on your power bills.  With the world transitioning away from fueling combustion engines with gasoline to charging electric vehicles, it's important to know what a kilowatt hour means.  

Your phone is charged in kilowatt hours, your air conditioner consumes kilowatt hours, and your electric vehicle will consume kilowatt hours.  Moving forward a kilowatt hour will come with a cost that we'll recognize the way that we recognize the cost per gallon of gas.  If you paid $10 for a gallon of gas, you'd know that was expensive and if you paid $2 per gallon of gas, you'd know that was a bargain.    What if you paid .15 cents per kilowatt for energy? You wouldn't know if that was fair market value, would you?

Our energy futures will require that we know what a kilowatt hour is and what a good rate is for it.  To learn more about how electricity rates are determined, you can visit our electricity pricing page.