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

Electricity has been generated at central stations since 1881.

* Hotel Electric Power Electricity generated and used aboard a ship for general purposes.

Electricity for the city was generated through a hydroelectric works in a canal on the Los Negros River.

Electricity was generated by a nuclear reactor for the first time ever on December 20, 1951 at the EBR-I experimental station near Arco, Idaho in the United States.

Electricity retailing began at the end of the 19th century when the bodies which generated electricity for their own use made supply available to third parties.

Electricity generated by regenerative braking may be fed back into the traction power supply ; either offset against other electrical demand on the network at that instant, or stored in lineside storage systems for later use.

Electricity is generated at the Playford B ( 240 MW ) and Northern power stations ( 520 MW ) from brown coal mined at Leigh Creek, 250 km to the north.

Electricity generated by the plant was sold to Consolidated Zinc / Comalco at basement prices, with no provision for inflation.

Electricity is generated due to electric potential difference between two electrodes.

Electricity was generated by diesel engines and street lights was provided only by the moon and the stars.

Electricity generated from new renewables and approved cogeneration schemes is not taxed.

Originally the electricity was generated by the railway's own power stations though they are now supplied via the island's grid by the Manx Electricity Authority.

Electricity was generated at the LYR's power station at Clifton, where a four-wheel battery electric shunter was used ( withdrawn 1946 ).

Renewable Energy Certificates ( RECs ), also known as Green tags, Renewable Energy Credits, Renewable Electricity Certificates, or Tradable Renewable Certificates ( TRCs ), are tradable, non-tangible energy commodities in the United States that represent proof that 1 megawatt-hour ( MWh ) of electricity was generated from an eligible renewable energy resource ( renewable electricity ).

Contrary to what the state had intended, the West-East Electricity Transfer Project in Guizhou only assured the continued increase in foreign investment on the coast, as most of the electricity generated in Guizhou was transmitted to Guangdong.

Power for them was supplied by the Madras Electricity System, from a thermal power station at Basins Bridge which generated AC power.

In early 1964, Benny and Christina joined a group with the odd name " Elverkets Spelmanslag " (" The Electricity Board Folk Music Group "), who by no means was a folk music ensemble: the name was a punning reference to their electric instruments.

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The Chelmscombe Quarry finished its work as a limestone quarry in the 1950s and was then used by the Central Electricity Generating Board as a Tower testing station.

The situation was greatly complicated by the large number of landowners involved: the PLA, the Greater London Council ( GLC ), the British Gas Corporation, five borough councils, British Rail and the Central Electricity Generating Board.

This view changed, however, with the publication of James Clerk Maxwell's 1873 Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in which the interactions of positive and negative charges were shown to be regulated by one force.

Benjamin Franklin conducted extensive research on electricity in the 18th century, as documented by Joseph Priestley ( 1767 ) History and Present Status of Electricity, with whom Franklin carried on extended correspondence.

Electricity would remain little more than an intellectual curiosity for millennia until 1600, when the English scientist William Gilbert made a careful study of electricity and magnetism, distinguishing the lodestone effect from static electricity produced by rubbing amber.

Electricity and magnetism ( and light ) were definitively linked by James Clerk Maxwell, in particular in his " On Physical Lines of Force " in 1861 and 1862.

In the late 18th century the Italian physician and anatomist Luigi Galvani marked the birth of electrochemistry by establishing a bridge between chemical reactions and electricity on his essay " De Viribus Electricitatis in Motu Musculari Commentarius " ( Latin for Commentary on the Effect of Electricity on Muscular Motion ) in 1791 where he proposed a " nerveo-electrical substance " on biological life forms.

As Fair Isle is not connected to the national grid, electricity is provided by the Fair Isle Electricity Company.

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Electricity – production by source:

The telephone network was maintained by the Electricity and Telephone Department till 1956.

Electricity permits control by dividing the layout into isolated blocks, where trains can be slowed or stopped by lowering or cutting power to a block.

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Electricity – production by source:

Both were turned down: Moratorium Plus by a margin of 41. 6 % for and 58. 4 % opposed, and Electricity Without Nuclear by a margin of 33. 7 % for and 66. 3 % opposed.

Electricity supplied by Italy

At the time of the strike he was chairman of the Stepney Borough Electricity Committee.

The Electricity Act 1947 introduced better retirement benefits for workers in that industry, and a Workers ’ Compensation ( Supplementation ) Act was passed in 1948 that introduced benefits for workers with certain asbestos-related diseases which had occurred before 1948.

Electricity production in 2001 was estimated at 220. 5 million kilowatt-hours.

After a period of unemployment, Major started working at the London Electricity Board ( where his successor as the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, also worked when he was young ) in 1963, and he decided to undertake a correspondence course in banking.

Electricity was brought to nearly every city in Iraq, and many outlying areas.

Electricity was a new technology, and the limitations of direct current for effective distance was poorly understood, so failures were also possible because of the decrease in voltage when the torpedoes were too far from the batteries.

Josiah Willard Gibbs, who was exposed to quaternions through James Clerk Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, separated off their vector part for independent treatment.

Electricity, first thought to be a fluid, was now understood to consist of particles called electrons.

The tramway section was taken over by the MMTB on 1 August 1922 and the electricity section taken over by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria in 1922.

Electricity from Fontana was intended for Alcoa factories.

Electricity was used only to flash lights and to indicate problems, such as a machine emptied of its balls.

However, the Electricity Supply Board, with the first national grid in Europe, was established to provide employment and electricity to the new state.

The song " Electricity " was a poem written by Bermann, who gave Van Vliet permission to adapt it to music.

Van Vliet's influence on post – punk bands was demonstrated by Magazine's recording of " I Love You You Big Dummy " in 1978 and the tribute album Fast ' n ' Bulbous-A Tribute to Captain Beefheart in 1988, featuring the likes of artists such as the Dog Faced Hermans, The Scientists, The Membranes, Simon Fisher Turner, That Petrol Emotion, the Primevals, The Mock Turtles, XTC, and Sonic Youth, who included a cover of Beefheart's " Electricity " as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of their 1988 album Daydream Nation.

Electricity came to Boston during the early part of the century, and electrical street lighting was provided from 1924.

Electricity was cut off to parts of the island for several days.

Electricity output in 2007 was 9. 9 TWh.

Electricity was introduced to rural Kimble County in April 1945.