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- noun One thousand ( 103 )
watts . Symbol:kW orKW .
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Examples
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The dollar's decline and the economy, not to mention the capitulation of new jobs (such as new kilo-watt wind turbines) should have elicited more inquiry into focusing tax cuts to fuel efficieny instead of just some vague ass BS that was accepted as an explanation for no damn energy plan and the predicament and worsening circumstances we find ourselves in.
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Every day that the Ford F-150 is the top selling vehicle in America (as it has been for 27 years) is a day of reckoning, and every time someone chooses to pay two cents extra per kilo-watt hour for wind power is a moment of reckoning.
Hank Green: The Law of Incremental Suck (or Why to Never Give Up) 2009
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Note, the nonpartisan Keystone report "Nuclear Power Joint Fact-Finding," from June 2007, found nuclear "power isn't cheap: 8.3 to 11.1 cents per kilo-watt hour."
Joseph Romm: Stunning Climate Double-Talk From McCain Campaign 2008
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It is estimated that to build additional units will take approximately two years per unit and cost US 4,000 per kilo-watt.
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That's why we made a commitment to reduce emissions from our coal-fired power plants to take our emissions per kilo-watt of electricity well below our neighbours in the United States.
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Special advisor to the IBA chairman, Michael Markovitz, also said Jacaranda 92.7 FM was refused permission to install and use a one kilo-watt gapfiller from the Brixton Tower on 92.7 FM frequency.
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The result: SEPB's standing has improved to No. 9 among municipal distributors and No. 9 among TVA power distributors, based on 2009 data of 1,000 kilo-watt hours.
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The result: SEPB's standing has improved to No. 9 among municipal distributors and No. 9 among TVA power distributors, based on 2009 data of 1,000 kilo-watt hours.
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The result: SEPB's standing has improved to No. 9 among municipal distributors and No. 9 among TVA power distributors, based on 2009 data of 1,000 kilo-watt hours.
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The result: SEPB's standing has improved to No. 9 among municipal distributors and No. 9 among TVA power distributors, based on 2009 data of 1,000 kilo-watt hours.
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