Discusses the properties of electricity and describes how it is made and used.

An enterprising teenager in Malawi builds a windmill from scraps he finds around his village and brings electricity, and a future, to his family

"It may seem unbearable to consider living in a world without television, video games, computers, or smartphones, but all these devices require power. What would happen if electricity could no longer be produced? It's time to start planning for this possibility. This ingenious guide walks readers off the grid and instructs about how to maintain a power-free lifestyle. Besides learning how to solve problems for a long-term, worldwide emergency event,...

Ms. Frizzle takes her class on a field trip through the town's electrical wires so they can learn how electricity is generated and how it is used

"The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with, a jerry-built structure now so rickety and near collapse that a strong wind or a hot day can bring it to a grinding halt. The grid is now under threat from a new source: renewable and variable energy, which puts stress on its logics as much as its components. In entertaining,...

Describes how electric power is produced in a power plant and travels through transformers, down the power highway, over the distribution lines, and into the house to make a lamp go on.