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Heat is technically defined as the energy transferred from one object to another because of temperature differences.

If you're talking about electrical circuitry, there are no types of electrical energy. Electrical energy is the energy associated with the redistribution of electrical charge.

Physicists usually talk about the electromagnetic field and one could distringuish between the electromagnetic energy transmitted by light/photons and the electrical energy transmitted by charged particles.

Electrical energy of charges can be transferred from the field into the internal energy of a resistor ( a wire, a stack of carbon) and make it get warmer. This is called "joule heating." This warm resistor then loses heat to its cooler surroundings. This is how coffee warmers, hot water heaters, hair dryers, electric ovens and stoves work.

Electromagnetic energy of photons can increase the temperature of an object simply by absorbing the photon.

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