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Show Information About Electricity From Experts WHAT'S WATT Electric power is measured mea-sured in units called watts. One watt is such a small amount of power that the measurement generally used is the kilowatt 1,000 watts. Watts are what electricity elec-tricity is measured in. We buy electricity in kilowatt-hours. The Edison . Electric Institute, the association associ-ation of America's investor-owned investor-owned electric utility companies, points out that kilowatt-hours are determined deter-mined by multiplying the number of kilowatts used by the number of hours they are in use. |