What do you mean by commercial unit of power? write its unit.

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The commercial unit of power if kW or Kilo watts.

A commercial unit is a large unit, which is used for commercial purposes. Commercial unit of power is a large unit of power that is used to measure large consumption of energy in commercial cases. Commercial units are used for convenience or easiness in measuring large quantities.

Its unit is Kilowatt. This is different from The SI unit of power, which is Watts or Joules per second.

Now, please note, kWh is actually unit of energy/ work, not power. In some textbooks, it is wrongly given that kilo watt hour is commercial unit of power. Mostly, questions will be - What is commercial unit of electric energy. Then answer will be kWh(kiloWatthour)

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