board of trade unit

A kilowatt-hour (unit symbol: kW⋅h or kW h; commonly written as kWh) is a non-SI unit of energy equal to 3.6 megajoules (MJ) in SI units, which is the energy delivered by one kilowatt of power for one hour. Kilowatt-hours are a common billing unit for electrical energy supplied by electric utilities. Metric prefixes are used for multiples and submultiples of the basic unit, the watt-hour (3.6 kJ).

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  1. EvTek23

    Anyone heard of the BOT unit?

    I came across this term for a unit of electricity, I'd never heard of it before. The BOT, Board Of Trade unit is the same as 1kWh, which in 1903 would have cost you around 6 1/2 old p, equivalent to 2 1/2 p in decimal money. We are talking the infancy of electricity, and the Bournemouth and...
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