He might, but he also might mean that he has a power meter that is displaying Kwh since last reset and he plugged it in and then checked it again later when it was all set up after an arbitrary time period and it was either showing the lowest non-zero value it was capable of displaying or was showing a number from several hours.
The hexagon is only stronger than a circle if you’re gridding it.
EDIT (stronger for the TOTAL material used)