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Electrification

 
Sci-Tech Dictionary: electrification
 
(i′lek·trə·fə¦kā·shən)

(electricity) The process of establishing a charge in an object. The generation, distribution, and utilization of electricity.


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WordNet: electrification
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Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: the activity of thrilling or markedly exciting some person or group

Meaning #2: the act of providing electricity


 
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Electrification refers to the modification of a system so that it operates using electricity.

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Electric grid

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. It also applies to the changeover of a railway from self contained steam locomotives, or in modern times diesel-powered locomotives to electric locomotives. The infrastructure required for electrification includes power plants, an electric power transmission grid, substations and shorter distribution lines to the end user.

Countries

One of the largest electrification projects was the GOELRO plan, adopted in 1920 and fulfilled in 1931 in the USSR.

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.

Electrification pioneers

Mobile electrification

Electrification of transportation is the use of hybrid electric and all-electric vehicles instead of all-petroleum vehicles (also called fossil-fuel vehicles or internal combustion engine vehicles). [1]

Electrification, in a railway context, describes the process of converting a railway system from steam- or diesel-powered propulsion, to electric traction, and covers the modification of the infrastructure and the provision of suitable rolling stock.

Energy Resilience

Electricity is:

  • the ‘stickiest’ form of energy: it stays in the continent where it is produced.
  • multi-sourced. If one source suffers a shortage, we can produce electricity from another, incluiding renewable sources.

As a result, it gives the greatest degree of energy resilience and the energy system is going to electrification [2].

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References

  1. ^ I.e. it is used in this sense in Electrifying Times
  2. ^ "Our Electric Future — The American, A Magazine of Ideas". American.com. 2009-06-15. http://www.american.com/archive/2008/july-august-magazine-contents/our-electric-future. Retrieved on 2009-06-19. 

 
 

 

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