Calories (mean)
A mean calorie is a unit of energy that was historically used to quantify the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius, approximately equal to 4.184 joules.
Therm (EC)
The therm (EC) is 100,000 Btu (International Table), or about 105.5 megajoules (MJ). Gas in the United Kingdom was historically billed in therms, and the EC stands for European Community, to tell it apart from the US therm.