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1 How Electricity Gets To Your House It's always there whenever you flip a switch or plug in a cord, but electricity has to travel a long way to get to your house. In fact, the power plant where your electricity is made might be hundreds of miles away! All the poles and wires you see along the highway and in front of your house are called the electrical transmission and distribution system. Today, power plants all across the country are connected to each other through the electrical system (sometimes called the "power grid"). If one power plant can't produce enough electricity to run all the air conditioners when it's hot, another power plant can send some where it's needed. Electricity is made at a power plant by huge generators. Most power plants use coal, but some use natural gas, water or even wind. Neenah Generating Facility in Neenah, Wisconsin The current is sent through transformers to increase the voltage to push the power long distances. The electrical charge goes through high- voltage transmission lines that stretch across the country.

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How Electricity Gets To Your House

It's always there whenever you flip a switch or plug in a cord, but electricity has to travel a long way to get to your house. In fact, the power plant where your electricity is made might be hundreds of miles away!All the poles and wires you see along the highway and in front of your house are called the electrical transmission and distribution system. Today, power plants all across the country are connected to each other through the electrical system (sometimes called the "power grid"). If one power plant can't produce enough electricity to run all the air conditioners when it's hot, another power plant can send some where it's needed.

Electricity is made at a power plant by huge generators. Most power plants use coal, but some use natural gas, water or even wind. Neenah Generating Facility    in Neenah, Wisconsin

The current is sent through transformers to increase the voltage to push the power long distances.

The electrical charge goes through high-voltage transmission lines that stretch across the country.

It reaches a substation, where the voltage is lowered so it can be sent on smaller power lines.

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It travels through distribution lines to your neighborhood, where smaller pole-top transformers reduce the voltage again to take the power safe to use in our homes.

It connects to your house through the service drop and passes through a meter that measures how much our family uses.

The electricity goes to the service panel in your basement or garage, where breakers or fuses protect the wires inside your house from being overloaded.Kids, never touch a service panel! It is only to be operated by your parents or a professional.The electricity travels through wires inside the walls to the outlets and switches all over your house.

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Está siempre allí siempre que usted tire un interruptor o se enchufe una cuerda, pero la electricidad tiene que viajar un modo largo de ponerse a su casa. ¡De hecho, la central eléctrica dónde su electricidad es hecha podría estar cientos de millas lejos!Llaman todos los postes y cables que usted ve a lo largo de la carretera y delante de su casa la transmisión eléctrica y el sistema de distribución. Hoy, las centrales eléctricas todo a través del país son unidos el uno al otro por el sistema eléctrico (a veces llamaban " la rejilla de poder ").

Si una central eléctrica no puede producir bastante electricidad para controlar todos los acondicionadores de aire cuando está caliente, otra central eléctrica puede enviar unos donde es necesario.

1. La electricidad es hecha en una central eléctrica por enormes generadores. La mayor parte de centrales eléctricas usan el carbón, pero algún gas natural de empleo, agua o aún el viento.

2. La corriente es enviada por transformadores para aumentar el voltaje para empujar el poder mucho tiempo se distancia.

3. El precio eléctrico examina líneas de transmisión de voltaje alto que se estiran a través del país.

4. Esto alcanza una subestación, donde el voltaje es bajado así puede ser reexpedido más pequeñas líneas de conducción eléctrica.

5. Esto viaja por líneas de distribución a su vecindad, donde más pequeños transformadores superiores de poste reducen el voltaje otra ve Esto se une a su casa por el servicio se caen y pasa por un metro que mide cuánto nuestra familia usa.z para tomar la caja fuerte de poder para usar en nuestras casas

6. La electricidad va al panel de servicio en su sótano o garaje, donde las olas grandes o fusibles protegen los cables dentro de su casa de la sobrecarga. ¡Los niños, nunca toque un panel de servicio! Es sólo para ser manejado por sus padres o un profesional.

7. La electricidad viaja por cables dentro de las paredes a las salidas e interruptores por todas partes de su casa.