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About electricity

Electricity is the flow of electrical power or charge. 

It is part of nature and one of our most widely used types of energy.

Electricity is actually a secondary energy source, also known as an energy carrier.

That means that we get electricity from converting other sources of energy, such as coal, nuclear, or solar energy. These are called primary sources.

The energy sources we use to make electricity can be renewable or non-renewable, but electricity itself is neither renewable nor non-renewable.

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