The word "kilowatts" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to indicate a unit of power in the International System of Units (SI) and is typically used in scientific terminology relating to electricity. For example, "The house has a solar panel that produces 5 kilowatts of power."
Then I took readings for absolutely everything – gas, electric and combined, by price, kilowatts and CO2 emissions.
Your columnist plans to upgrade his original 4.2 kilowatts' worth of domestic indoor and outdoor lighting with LED equivalents, one lamp at a time, as the existing bulbs (mostly compact fluorescents) burn out.
Photovoltaic panels on the building's exterior provide up to an additional 15 kilowatts of power.
With capacity of mere tens of kilowatts and a rotor diameter of 15 metres or so, these windmills are no giants, at least by today's standards.
On a recent sweltering day, they were producing 33 kilowatts of electricity, equivalent to the consumption of 40 homes.
TGER produces as much as 64 kilowatts of power enough to run the command post of a battalion.Such measures should reduce the amount of fuel needed to produce electricity.
On August 7th the company pulled the wraps off a refrigerator-sized prototype which, it hopes, will have shrunk to the size of a TV and yet be capable of producing up to seven kilowatts of electricity by the time it goes into production between 2003 and 2005.Fuel cells are an essentially simple idea, based on combining hydrogen and oxygen to produce water and electric power.
One, floated in Mr Miliband's speech, is to persuade power firms to change their business model, selling comfort instead of kilowatts.
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But it is only with the tumbling price of supercomputing power in recent years that it has become practical to run the large "computational fluid dynamics" programs needed to find the optimum solutions.Larry Miles, president of the WTC, says his firm plans to upgrade the prototype to 750 kilowatts, using a lightweight blade specifically designed to take advantage of the downwind configuration.
The complex circuitry that controls the turbine did not respond well to being right next door to hundreds of kilowatts of radio transmission, though the problem has now been solved.
