Unit A
Electricity that comes from the attraction between two objects with different charges.
What is static electricity?
A device that steps up or steps down electric power
What is a transformer?
category of materials that allow electrical current to flow freely through them
What is a conductor?
This was formed after the 1965 blackout.
What is the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC).
This is the most used fossil fuel for energy production in the U.S.
The discovery and harnessing of this current revolutionized the power industry.
What is alternating current?
The United State's primary energy source of transportation.
What is Petroleum?
Unit that expresses how much electrical energy a consumer uses.
What are kilowatt hours?
Process in which electricity and heat are produced at the same time from the same fuel or energy source.
What is cogeneration?
Most types of energy is one of these two.
What is Kinetic and potential energy?
A law that broke up monopolies throughout the USA.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
The bulk transfer of high-electrical energy from its source at generating plants to substations.
What is electric power transmission?
portion of a power plant that contains the fire and fuel-burning equipment.
What is the furnace?
location along a transmission or distribution route containing equipment to transform and route power.
What is a substation?
Plant uses energy from this to power photosynthesis.
What is sunlight?
The network of generation, transmission, and distribution systems over a broad geographical area.
What is a electric power grid?
Nonprofit entities that are owned by the customers who are supplied with the services.
What are cooperative energy utilities?
Area at a generating station that steps up voltages from the generator and routes it to the transmission lines.
What are switchyards?
substance released into a body of water.
What are effluents?
A single bolt of this unleashes the same energy as blowing up a ton of TNT.
What is lightning?
An industrial device made to reduce pollution using an electric field that charges the pollutant to clean air with a 99% efficiency.
What is an Electrostatic precipitator?
Term commonly used to refer to a group of businesses that supply vital services, which are subjected to the regulation of rates and service practices.
What is a public utility?
Simple compounds containing only the elements hydrogen and carbon; fossil fuels are also made of this.
What are hydrocarbons?
Carbon-rich energy sources which are derived from the decomposition of ancient living matter
What are fossil fuels?
One hour's worth of energy from the sun could power the Earth for a ___________.
A. Month
B. 10 Years
C. A Year
D. 2 Years
What is C?