kWh To BTU Calculator + Chart (Simplest Converter)

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

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.