Glossary · Profitability & Economics
Kilowatt-hour
Also: kWh
A kilowatt-hour (kWh) is the unit electricity is billed in, equal to one kilowatt drawn for one hour, so a machine rated at 3,500 watts uses 3.5 kWh every hour and 84 kWh a day.
Related terms
- Break-even electricity price
- The break-even electricity price is the highest cost per kilowatt-hour at which a specific machine's daily mining revenue still covers its daily power cost, so a miner paying more than that figure loses money on every kilowatt-hour.
- Joules per terahash
- Joules per terahash (J/TH) is the efficiency measure for a mining machine, equal to its power draw in watts divided by its hashrate in TH/s, so a lower figure means less electricity for the same expected revenue.
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