KEROSENE - Certain colorless, low-sulfur oil products that burn without producing much smoke.

kBtu - One-thousand (1,000) Btus.

KILOVOLT (kv) - One-thousand volts (1,000). Distribution lines in residential areas usually are 12 kv (12,000 volts).

KILOWATT (kW) - One thousand (1,000) watts. A unit of measure of the amount of electricity needed to operate given equipment. On a hot summer afternoon a typical home, with central air conditioning and other equipment in use, might have a demand of four kW each hour.

KILOWATT-HOUR (kWh) - The most commonly-used unit of measure telling the amount of electricity consumed over time. It means one kilowatt of electricity supplied for one hour. In 1989, a typical California household consumes 534 kWh in an average month.

$/kWh - Dollars per kilowatt hour. The standard unit of measure for the price of energy.

$/kW - Dollars per kilowatt. The standard unit of measure to represent the installed costs of power plants.