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How is Electricity Provided to Your Home?


There are four steps to deliver electricity to your home or business.
  1. Once the electricity is produced at the power plant, it passes
    through to large transformers which "step up" or increase the voltage.
    This will allow the electricity to travel greater distances.
     
  2. Electricity then enters the transmission system. The system consists
    of high voltage lines and towers that spread from the east coast to
    the west coast. You can think of it as the main trunk of a tree.
     
  3. Substation transformers "step down" the voltage.
    This allows local distribution of electricity to various communities and neighborhoods. The distribution system is much like the smaller branches of the tree which grow from the trunk.
     
  4. Pole transformers step down the voltage once again to your
    home or business for the many uses we are familiar with. Using the
    example of the tree, the leaves are the final point of delivery
    (transformer) to your home or business.