energy generation
Making usable electricity
Energy generation is the production of usable power from various sources—fossil fuels, nuclear reactions, sunlight, wind, or water.
The term appears frequently in discussions of infrastructure and climate policy: The country is shifting toward renewable energy generation.
Power plants, solar farms, and wind turbines are all sites of energy generation.
- natural gasSubterranean hydrocarbon fuel
- fossil fuelsCombustible prehistoric organic deposits
- coal powerElectricity from combusted sedimentary carbon
- carbon emissionsReleased greenhouse gases
- carbon footprintTotal greenhouse gases produced
hydropower · electrolyzers · turbines · solar power · nuclear fission · transmission lines · power plants · base load · peak demand · kilowatt hours · transformers · smart grids · photovoltaic cells · steam engines · oil shale · air pollution · thermal pollution · renewable sources
- nuclear sciencenuclear fission, nuclear physics, nuclear fusion, radiation, nuclear fuel
energy generationenergy consumption
Rate of power use
power consumption · electricity consumption · energy expenditure · energy demand · load
energy generationenergy storage
Capturing power for later
battery storage · energy distribution · energy transmission · load balancing
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