Making Electricity
This turns the linear motion of the steam into circular motion.
What is a turbine?
Electricity can be produced at a _________ and moved long distances before it is used.
What is a power plant?
This term means the capability of a utility company to provide electricity to its customers 100 percent of the time.
What is reliability?
This is the rate (time) of doing work.
What is power?
A measure of the pressure applied to electrons to make them move.
What is voltage?
The blades of a turbine are connected to this component.
What is a generator?
First, the electricity is generated at the power plant. Next, it goes by wire to this device that “steps up” the voltage.
What is a transformer?
This is the total quantity of electricity a utility company has on-line and ready to deliver when people need it.
What is capacity?
A measure of the electric power an electrical device uses.
What is a watt?
This is defined as electrons flowing between two points having a difference in voltage.
What is electric current?
A generator houses this ________ surrounded by coiled copper wire.
What is a magnet?
Electricity is sent on a nationwide network of _______ ________ lines made of aluminum.
What are transmission lines?
The electricity generated by utility companies around-the-clock, using the most inexpensive energy sources—usually coal, nuclear, and hydropower.
What is baseload power?
1,000 watts is considered this.
What is kilowatt?
This is how current is measured.
What are amps?
Blades spin the magnet rapidly, rotating the magnet inside the coil producing this.
What is an electric current?
These are small buildings in fenced-in areas that contain the switches, transformers, and other electrical equipment.
What are substations?
The maximum load during a specified period of time when many people want electricity at the same time.
What is peak demand?
The amount of electricity used in one hour at a rate of 1,000 watts
What is kilowatt hour?
A property that slows the flow of electrons.
What is resistance?
__________ is still very hot but now at normal pressure, is piped to a condenser, where it is cooled into water by passing it through pipes circulating over a large body of water or cooling tower.
What is steam?
In 2017, this energy source led the U.S. in electricity production.
What is natural gas?
These are used to link electric utilities together so they can share power as it is needed.
What are power pools?
This term means equal to one billion watts.
What is gigawatts?
Resistance is measured in units called this.
What are ohms?