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Hello!
Today we are going to tell you
where electricity comes from
and how it gets to your homes.
The electricity we use every day
is generated at power plants,
then it travels through transmission lines
and finally it is delivered to each one of you.
Let me explain:
We generate electricity
using different resources
such as water, natural gas, coal, oil, sunlight,
wind and many more.
The key is to make something move.
In this case it's a turbine
that rotates making a generator rotate
which converts the kinetic energy into electricity
using magnets and circuits.
At our hydroelectric plants
we use water from rivers and lakes
that we store in reservoirs.
We make the water flow through pipes
which then pushes the blades of the turbine,
making it rotate.
We can also move the turbine
using wind power.
Energy produced this way is clean and renewable
as water and wind
don't run out or get polluted in the process.
The turbine also rotates
when we fire high-pressure steam at it.
This is exactly what happens
at thermal power plants.
Steam is produced when water is heated to high temperatures.
Different fuels such as natural gas,
coal and oil,
or renewable fuels such as biomass
or the earth's heat
can all be used to heat the water.
A nuclear power plant works in the same way,
but heat produced by radioactive substances
is used to heat the water instead.
Another way of generating electricity
is to capture sun energy
in panels using substances that can directly produce
an electrical current
via the photovoltaic effect.
No matter how it is generated.
Electricity is transmitted
through cables
from the generators
to the transformers,
which increase or decrease
the electrical voltage.
Here a long journey begins
traveling through thick cables
held up in very high towers.
These transmission lines
are interconnected
with other power plants
creating a network
called the electrical grid.
Before it gets to you,
the electricity passes
through step down transformers
to reduce voltage,
which is very high
while the electricity is transmitted
over long distances.
And this is how the energy
we generate
powers this screen
and machines we use to live today.
At ISAGEN we participate in the whole process,
generating energy
in the power plants and selling it directly to big industry buyers
that consume large quantities of energy.
We also sell to the electric companies
that sell it and transport it at a low voltage to consumers.
Another important part of our business
is trading in the wholesale electricity market.
At ISAGEN we also build new power plants
to generate more energy
and we research other resources
that are renewable and environmentally friendly,
like water.
I really enjoyed explaining
how we work at ISAGEN
to produce the electricity
we all consume in our daily lives.
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