Electricity Description of Renewable or Advantages Disadvantages

transformations nonrenewable

Solar generated Solar-powered Renewable - -Renewable -Cost

electricity photovoltaic (PV) because sunlight -Reduces -Weather
panels convert the can be replaced energy bills dependent
sun's rays into -Low -Uses a lot of
electricity by exciting maintenance space
electrons in silicon
cells using the
photons of light from
the sun

Hydroelectric A turbine converts Renewable - -Renewable -Expensive.

generated the kinetic energy of energy source - Recreational -Limited
electricity falling water into because it does opportunities Reservoirs
mechanical energy. not consume any - Provide -Environmental
Then a generator water essential back- Consequences.
converts the up power during
mechanical energy major electricity
from the turbine into outages
electrical energy.

Wind generated The energy in the Renewable -Produces no -Constant wind is

electricity wind turns two or Because wind is water or air needed
three propeller-like a source of pollution -Need a lot of land
blades around a energy which is - Relatively -Significant visual
rotor. The rotor is can be replaced cheap to build impact
connected to the and is non- - Farmers
main shaft, which polluting receive income
spins a generator to
create electricity

coal fired power coal is burned in a Non-renewable - -Reliability. -Greenhouse gas

stations furnace to produce cannot be -Affordability. emissions.
heat - chemical to replaced once -Abundance. -Generation of
heat energy. this burned -Known millions of tons of
heat is used to technologies. waste
change water into -Emission of
steam in the boiler. harmful
this drives the substances.
generator to -Mining
produce electricity - destruction.
kinetic to electrical
energy.