euromäärällä

Euromäärällä is a metric unit of energy, primarily used in Finland and by some former Eastern Bloc countries. It is equivalent to 1 kilowatt-hour (kWh) multiplied by 100, or 100 kWh. The term can also be written as "euroumatontesa" in some languages.

The use of euromäärällä as a unit of measurement for electricity dates back to the 1920s. Following World War I, the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries began to use this metric as an alternative to more common units such as the horsepower. This choice was largely driven by the desire to create a system that linked electricity consumption with industrial production standards established by the socialist economy.

In the context of the socialist planned economy, euromäärällä served as a convenient metric for measuring electricity consumption by heavy industry. It helped production managers and planners assess an enterprise's potential output and consumption per unit of electricity. With the rise of international cooperation in energy production during the 1980s, the use of this unit decreased. Today, euromäärällä is mainly used in technical contexts or niche areas where metered electrical consumption is beneficial for establishing complex production benchmarks.

Interchanging units between kWh and euromäärällä requires multiplication factors, and while they are understood and memorized, in most modern systems, the term has mostly fallen out of use due to simplicity expressed through scientific numbers.