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As storm hits, Israelis break wintertime electricity use record
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe Israel Electric Corporation says Israelis just broke an all-time record in wintertime electricity consumption, guzzling 12,712 megawatts to warm their homes as a cold stormfront hits the country’s population centers.
The last winter record, of 12,624 megawatts, was set in January 2016.
The all-time record was set last summer, when Israelis drew 12,921 megawatts at one point, much of it for air conditioners amid an unusually hot summer.
A watt is a measure of energy transfer equal to one joule per second.
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