Colorado Reader January 2020: Fueling your life (Electricity)

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Fueling your life
It takes many different sources of
energy, including renewables, to
make the electricity that keeps
your lights on.
Renewable energy is power
generated from sunlight, blowing
wind and flowing water. You
get a growing amount of your
electricity from renewable
resources. The rest of your
energy is fueled by resources
including oil, coal and natural gas.
Power is generated either at large
power plants, wind farms or solar
fields, or locally from smaller projects
in the community. Some people
have solar panels on their homes to
provide power.
These sources
of electricity are
all connected by
power lines to
homes, schools
and communities.
Hi! I’m Randy.
We can make electricity
to power your home and
school from different
resources around you.
Some of those resources
are renewablem like
sunlight, wind and water.
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