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K

kilowatt hour

non-SI unit of energy, used by electricity authorities for billing, equal to 3.6 megajoules. The symbol is kW.h, which is sometimes sloppily written as kWh.

Source: http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/teach_res/db/elgloss.htm