Gates Building Energy Use
Units and Costs |
Units & CostsWe present energy consumption as instantaneous power, in kilowatts (kW). These are actually based on hourly readings; we can in principle go for much finer time granularity. Often electricity consumption is presented in terms of total energy, i.e. kilowatt hours (kW hr), but presenting this as a time series would just get us back to kilowatt hours per hour, that is, kilowatts. If it helps:
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