What is Electricity?

What is "electricity?" It is much easier to describe what it does than what it is. For example, electricity operates our Lights, runs our Refrigerators and powers our Electric Motors.

Electricity is actually defined as: " the movement (or flow) of Electrons through a material."

The word "electric" comes from the Greek word "amber" and has been used to describe a wide range of related phenomena. We cannot see electricity, but we can see its effects (i.e. light).

Electricity can exist in a number of forms; however, there are two types of commonly used electricity:

1. Direct Current: which is commonly provided by Batteries; and

2. Alternating Current: provided by Electric Utilities or other Power Generators in the form of Electrons (called "current") flowing through a Wire called a "Conductor."