Electricity Project

So how does electricity get to your house?

I wrote what order it goes in, and how it gets to my house.  I found pictures to go with it.  So you can see how electricity gets to your house and it can take awhile.  I thought of what I thought nobody else would do, and I picked Legos.  So I made a Lego house, and it has wire for the wire poles.  I made a solar panel because it can get to hour house by solar panels.  I made a transformer and a meter.  I made a solar panel in the house.  I made a picture of the house and a sun to show it comes from light to solar panels.  There is a cloud because the wind can make a windmill spin to generate a battery.  A pool is there to show electricity can come from moving water.  There’s a key that shows what things mean, like green means it is underground because the wires can go underground.  My most interesting fact is that I didn’t know that it took so many steps to get to your house.

1.  Electricity is made at a power plant by huge generators.  Most power plants use coal, but some use natural gas, water, or even wind.
2. The current is sent through transformers to increase the voltage to push the power long distances.
3. The electrical charge goes through high voltage transmission lines that stretch across the country.
4. It reaches a substation where the voltage is lowered so it can be sent on smaller power lines.
5. It travels through distribution lines to your neighborhood, where smaller pole-top transformers reduce the voltage again to take the power safely to our homes.
6. It connects to your house through the service drop and passes through a meter that measures how much our family uses.
7. The electricity goes to service panels in your basement or garage, where breakers or fuses protect the wires inside your house from being overloaded.  Never touch a service panel!  It is very dangerous.
8. The electricity travels through wires inside the walls to the outlets and switches all over your house.