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5 total sentences available.
Writing in a blog post, the Center for Global Development said seasonal decorative lights account for 6.6 billion kilowatt hours of electricity, that is more than the national electricity consumption of El Salvador, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Nepal or Cambodia.
Source: tatoeba (12263140)
Holonyms: MW, megawatt < GW, gigawatt < TW, terawatt < PW, petawatt
Source: wiktionary
Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt
Source: wiktionary
And one California kilowatt equals 3 East Coast KWs. And—as everybody knows that—we, on the East Coast, are the only legal ones.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include electric motor power, kilowatt hour, kw, power unit, thousand-watt unit.
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