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Electrification refers to changing a thing or system to operate using electricity. A more specific usage of the word refers to the act or process of building the necessary infrastructure to supply electric power to homes and businesses, especially in rural and isolated areas or the changeover of a railway from in the past steam locomotives, but now most often diesel-powered locomotives to electric locomotives. The infrastructure required for electrification includes power plants, long haul transmission lines, substations and shorter transmission lines to the end user. Lightning strikes during a night-time thunderstorm. ... Electric power is the amount of work done by an electric current in a unit time. ... Great Western Railway No. ... Diesel or Diesel fuel is a specific fractional distillate of fuel oil (mostly petroleum) that is used as fuel in a diesel engine invented by German engineer Rudolf Diesel. ... A locomotive (from Latin loco motivus) is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train, and has no payload capacity of its own; its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks. ... A power station (also power plant) is a facility for the generation of electric power. ... A transmission line is the material medium or structure that forms all or part of a path from one place to another for directing the transmission of energy, such as electromagnetic waves or acoustic waves, as well as electric power transmission. ... A 115 kV to 41. ... Economics and commerce define an end-user as the person who uses a product. ...


In the United States, widespread rural electrification began with the establishment of the Rural Electric Administration (REA) in 1935 and its associated local Rural Electric Cooperatives. The Rural Electric Administration was a department of the United States federal government created on 11 May 1935 through efforts of the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A utility cooperative is a type of cooperative that is tasked with the delivery of a public utility such as electricity or telecommunications to its members. ...


Electrification pioneers

Sid McMath, from the cover of his autobiography Promises Kept (University of Arkansas Press, 2003) Sidney Sanders McMath (June 14, 1912–October 4, 2003) was a U.S. Marine hero and progressive Democratic reform Governor of the State of Arkansas (1949–1953), United States, who, in defiance of his state... TVA logo The Tennessee Valley Authority is a New Deal agency created to generate electric power and control floods in a seven-U.S.-state region around the Tennessee River Valley. ...

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Electrification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (152 words)
A more specific usage of the word refers to the act or process of building the necessary infrastructure to supply electric power to homes and businesses, especially in rural and isolated areas or the changeover of a railway from in the past steam locomotives, but now most often diesel-powered locomotives to electric locomotives.
The infrastructure required for electrification includes power plants, long haul transmission lines, substations and shorter transmission lines to the end user.
In the United States, widespread rural electrification began with the establishment of the Rural Electric Administration (REA) in 1935 and its associated local Rural Electric Cooperatives.
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