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Show lIMS22G! .n;.: Information About '''', Electricity From Experts IV, , r WHAT'S WATT .Vi ' .' Electric power is mea-i.- sured in units called watts. ' ' On watt is such a small , amount of power that the measurement generally used ,:; Is the kilowatt-1,000 watta. Wtts are what alec-' alec-' v tricity is measured in. y - ' . We buy electricity in kilowatt-hours. The Edison Electric Institute, the associ- ''' ation of America's investor-owned investor-owned electric utility companies, points out that kilowatt-hours are deter-, deter-, mined by multiplying the number of kilowatts used by the number of hours they are in use. |