From 0c9566b3715778f47c7930b5a4074f6a7b81c482 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lukas Koch Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2022 14:33:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Fix error about unit of average power. The average of something has the same unit of that something. So the average power also has the unit Watt. In fact, to get the average, you would integrate the power, yielding the total energy in kWh, and then divide that by the total time: kWh / h = kW. The only instance where you would get a unit of W/h (Watt per hour) I can think of, is when you look at the speed at which power consumption changes, i.e. the differential of the power function. --- source/_docs/energy/faq.markdown | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/source/_docs/energy/faq.markdown b/source/_docs/energy/faq.markdown index 9dd75ad7f84c..3d597eeac50c 100644 --- a/source/_docs/energy/faq.markdown +++ b/source/_docs/energy/faq.markdown @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Electrical Power is measured in Watts (W) and Electrical Energy is measured in k Think of this in a parallel to speed and distance: Power is the speed you are going and Energy is the distance driven. -Therefore Energy (kiloWatt-hour) is not an average of the Power you are consuming over a given period of time (that would be kiloWatt/hour). Energy is the integral (mathematical operation) of the Power function. +Therefore Energy (kiloWatt-hour) is not an average of the Power you are consuming over a given period of time (the unit of the average power would be Watt or kiloWatt again). Energy is the integral (mathematical operation) of the Power function. This difference is very important as you need to use the proper entities in our Energy Panel.