on quads, toes and other energy units

Tons of oil equivalent, quadrillion BTUs, gigawatts per year… This is a conversion table for common energy units:

quad toe EJ kWh GWyear
quad 1 2.52E7 1.06 2.93E11 33.4
toe 3.93E-8 1 4.18E-8 1.16E4 1.33E-6
EJ 0.948 2.39E7 1 2.78E11 31.7
kWh 3.41E-12 8.60E-5 3.6E-12 1 1.14E-10
GWyear 2.99E-2 7.54E5 3.16E-2 8.77E9 1

Thus, the world primary energy consumption in 2010 was, according to the BP Energy report, 12,000 Mtoe / 476 quads / 15.9 TWyear / 576 EJ.

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