Electric Energy

Electric Energy is not a non-renewable natural energy resource that is mined or pumped from the ground. Electric Energy is a manufactured product. Actually, electricity is a "secondary energy source". We manufacture it from the conversion of other "primary energy sources" like coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear power and other natural sources. The energy sources we use to make Electric Energy can be renewable or non-renewable, but Electric Energy itself is neither renewable or non-renewable. Electric Energy is manufactured in electric generators, and then transmitted by copper wire long or short distances to where that power is utililzed. In today's high-technology world, the utilization of Electric Energy is everywhere around us.

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Electric Energy is considered by many experts to be the most important source of power consumed by industry, commercial buildings, institutions and homes. It is supplied by generating stations. Traditional generating stations manufacture power in electrical generators. This is accomplised by turning those generators with turbines that are in turned by a number of sources. In the case of fossil-fuel burning stations, energy sources such as coal, oil, natural gas (actually, any source of fuel that is carbon based) are used to boil water. That water is boiled into high pressure steam. This high pressure steam is what turns the turbines that turns the generator that in turn manufactures Electric Energy.

But there are other ways to create electricity not using fossil fuels. Electric Energy can also be created using nuclear reactors to boil water and then generate power in the same way as mentioned above. The same process of turbines turning electrical generators and generating power also takes place in hydroelectric power plants that use falling water to turn electrical generators.

Renewable sources of Electric Energy such as wind work on the same principle. Geothermal plants use high pressure steam and heat from under ground to turn turbine-generators. Finally, power can be created from solar radiation through photovoltaic cells.