25 February 2015

Household Energy Consumption in kWh

Why is the joule not used as a unit of the total electrical energy used in an average household?

Joule is a very small unit for household electrical consumption and the numbers will become very large for calculation. It will be more convenient to calculate total electrical energy used in an average household using kWh.

Check out this BBC - GCSE Bitesize link on Practical Electricity - using kWh for household energy consumption.

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