Energy Converter
Select the units you want to convert between and enter a value.
Energy
Worth Knowing
Energy wears many units because it appears in many fields: joules in physics, calories in nutrition, kilowatt-hours on your electricity bill, and BTUs in heating and cooling. A subtlety worth knowing is that the food 'Calorie' with a capital C is actually a kilocalorie — a thousand of the physics calories — so a 2,000-Calorie diet is 2,000 kcal. The kilowatt-hour, meanwhile, is energy, not power: it's what you get by running one kilowatt for one hour.
How to Use
- Choose the unit you're converting from and the unit you want, from the two dropdowns above.
- Type a value into the input field — the converted result updates instantly.
- Swap the two units any time to flip the direction of the conversion.