kilovolt

Examples

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• For instance, networks of distribution cables must be installed, costing about $179,000 per kilometer of 115-kilovolt lines (DOE/EIA 2002).

  Academic text (2002)

• They digitized into a GIS each transmission station along a 29-km segment of a 230-kilovolt (kV) power line in New Jersey

  Academic text (1998)

• Let's turn this kilovolt knob over to maximum power...

  Fiction book (1998)

• For a home with a two-kilovolt solar system, that's a $12,000 gain.

  Blog text (27)

• Without the battery, American Electric Power would also have had to build a new 138 kilovolt line to the transformer station and expand the station to handle the load.

  Academic text (2009)

• Cathey stressed that electric compressor stations should be connected directly to the electric transmission line, such as a 115-kilovolt line, not to the distribution line.

  Academic text (1996)

• In Canada and the US, the grid includes more than 200,000 miles of high-voltage lines that operate at or above 230 kilovolts and ultimately serve more than 300 million consumers.

  Academic text (2004)

• The vehicle operates on 25 kilovolts AC in France and in the tunnel; 750 volts DC in England; and 3 kilovolts DC in Belgium.

  Academic text (1993)

• The power plant produces electricity at 138 kilovolts to supply the city.

• The technician explained that the system operates efficiently at 220 kilovolts.

Synonyms

K

kV

vskilovolt

• Specialized

1 4.3

A unit of electric voltage equal to one thousand volts

is the full word form rather than the compact symbol

Compounds

K

kilovolt-ampere

• Specialized

6.3

A unit of electrical power for alternating current equal to 1,000 volt-amperes

How High

megavolt

• Specialized

1 5.2

kilovolt

• Specialized

1 5.4

volt

• Specialized

83 4.1

millivolt

• Specialized

1 4.9

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