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Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from sources of primary energy.

For electric utilities, it is the first process in the delivery of electricity to consumers.

The other processes as transmission, distribution, energy storage and recovery using pumped-storage methods are normally carried out by the electric power industry.

Electricity is most often generated at a power station by electromechanical generators, primarily driven by heat engines fuelled by combustion or nuclear fission but also by other means such as the kinetic energy of flowing water and wind.

Other energy sources include solar photovoltaics and geothermal power.

In electricity generation, a generator is a device that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy for use in an external circuit.

Sources of mechanical energy include steam turbines, gas turbines, water turbines, internal combustion engines and even hand cranks.

The first electromagnetic generator, the Faraday disk, was built in 1831 by British scientist Michael Faraday.

Generators provide nearly all of the power for electric power grids.

Direct current (DC) is a flow of electrical charge carriers that always takes place in the same direction.

The current need not always have the same magnitude, but if it is to be defined as dc, the direction of the charge carrier flow must never reverse.

This contrasts with alternating current which varies the direction of flow.