Electricity Generation is the first process in the delivery of electricity to consumers. The electricity generation is the process that generates electric power from other sources of primary energy. The basic principles of electricity generation were discovered by the British scientist Michael Faraday during the 1820s and early 1830. What he discovered is that the “electricity is generated by the movement of a loop of wire, or disc of cooper between the poles of a magnet”, and his method is still used today. Most of the time the electricity is 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 kinetic energy of flowing water and wind.” The demand for electricity can be found in two different ways. The first method that is the most used ones is for public or private utilities to “construct large scale centralized projects to generate and transmit the electricity required to fuel economies.” Most of these projects cause and have caused unpleasant “environmental effects such as air or radiation pollution and the flooding of large areas of land.” Frequently these sites generate electricity as a byproduct of other industrial processes such as using gas from landfills to drive turbines.

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/e/electricity_generation.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation