10 Facts About Electricity generation

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Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from sources of primary energy.

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Electricity generation is not freely available in nature, so it must be "produced" .

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Electricity generation is most often generated at a power plant by electromechanical generators, primarily driven by heat engines fueled by combustion or nuclear fission but by other means such as the kinetic energy of flowing water and wind.

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Fundamental principles of electricity generation were discovered in the 1820s and early 1830s by British scientist Michael Faraday.

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The improvements of these large-scale Electricity generation plants were critical to the process of centralised Electricity generation as they would become vital to the entire power system that we now use today.

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Utility-scale Electricity generation is achieved by rotating electric generators or by photovoltaic systems.

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Almost all commercial electrical Electricity generation is done using electromagnetic induction, in which mechanical energy forces a generator to rotate.

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Electricity generation is the fourth highest combined source of NOx, carbon monoxide, and particulate matter in the US.

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In recent years distributed Electricity generation as has seen a spark in popularity due to its propensity to use renewable energy Electricity generation methods such as rooftop solar.

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Electricity generation is created through the use of a nuclear reactor where heat produced by nuclear fission is used to produce steam which in turn spins turbines and powers the generators.

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