What is kilowatt hour?

A kilowatt hour is a unit of energy equal to 1,000 watt hours. It is the standard billing unit used by electricity providers worldwide to measure household and commercial energy consumption.

What is kilocalorie (dietary)?

A kilocalorie, written as Calorie with a capital C in nutrition contexts, is a unit of energy equal to 1,000 thermochemical calories. It is the standard unit used to express the energy content of food on nutrition labels globally.

Worked examples

1 kilowatt hour = 860.4206501 kilocalorie (dietary)

1 kilocalorie (dietary) = 4,184 joule

More Energy conversions

• Convert kilowatt hour to joule
• Convert kilowatt hour to kilojoule
• Convert kilowatt hour to calorie (thermochemical)
• Convert kilowatt hour to kilocalorie (dietary)
• Convert kilowatt hour to watt hour
• Convert kilowatt hour to megajoule
• Convert kilowatt hour to electronvolt
• Convert kilowatt hour to British thermal unit
• Convert kilowatt hour to therm (US)

Assumption: calorie means thermochemical calorie, and therm means US therm.