There are many cases when you will have to convert kWh to BTU. Luckily, it’s very easy to do this conversion.
Let’s quickly summarize what kWh and BTU mean:
- kWh stands for kilowatt-hour. This is a unit of electrical energy and is defined as an amount of electricity used to run a 1,000W (1kW) device for 1 hour.
- BTU stands for British Thermal Unit. This is a unit of heat (cooling) and is defined as the amount of heat required to heat up (or cool) 1 pound of water by one degree (°F).
How do you convert kWh to BTU?
This is dead simple. Just use this conversion rule:
1 kWh is equal to 3,412 BTU.
To convert kWh to BTU, you just need to multiply kWh by 3,412 to get the BTUs. Example: How many BTU is 3 kWh?
3 kWh × 3,412 BTU/kWh = 10,236 BTU
To help you out, we have designed an easy-to-use kWh to BTU calculator. You just insert kWh and the calculator will automatically do the kWh to BTU conversion for you. Further on, you will also find a kWh to BTU conversion chart for 0.1 kWh to 50 kWh.
Here is the calculator, followed by the conversion chart:
kWh To BTU Calculator
It’s quite easy to use this calculator. Let’s say you want to know how many BTU is 5 kWh. Just use the slider in the calculator above, slide it to ‘5’ and you will get the result: 5 kWh is equal to 17,060 BTU.
Here is the conversion chart with converted BTUs from kWh:
kWh To BTU Chart
Kilowatt-hours (kWh): | British Thermal Units (BTU): |
0.1 kWh | 341 BTU |
0.5 kWh | 1706 BTU |
1 kWh | 3412 BTU |
1.5 kWh | 5118 BTU |
2 kWh | 6824 BTU |
2.5 kWh | 8530 BTU |
3 kWh | 10,236 BTU |
3.5 kWh | 11,942 BTU |
4 kWh | 13,648 BTU |
4.5 kWh | 15,354 BTU |
5 kWh | 17,060 BTU |
5.5 kWh | 18,766 BTU |
6 kWh | 20,472 BTU |
6.5 kWh | 22,178 BTU |
7 kWh | 23,884 BTU |
7.5 kWh | 25,590 BTU |
8 kWh | 27,296 BTU |
9 kWh | 30,708 BTU |
10 kWh | 34,120 BTU |
11 kWh | 37,532 BTU |
12 kWh | 40,944 BTU |
13 kWh | 44,356 BTU |
14 kWh | 48,109 BTU |
15 kWh | 51,180 BTU |
16 kWh | 54,592 BTU |
17 kWh | 58,004 BTU |
18 kWh | 61,416 BTU |
19 kWh | 64,828 BTU |
20 kWh | 68,240 BTU |
25 kWh | 85,300 BTU |
30 kWh | 102,360 BTU |
40 kWh | 136,480 BTU |
50 kWh | 170,600 BTZ |
Using these two resources you can quite easily convert kWh to BTU. If you have any questions regarding this conversion, you can use the comment section below and we’ll help you out.