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  2. List of United States electric companies - Wikipedia

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    Homeworks Tri-County Electric Cooperative. Lansing Board of Water & Light. Lowell Light and Power. Midwest Energy & Communications (Cooperative) Ontonagon County REA (Cooperative) Presque Isle Electric & Gas Cooperative. Thumb Electric Cooperative. Upper Peninsula Power Company. We Energies.

  3. Nuclear power in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Nuclear power compared to other sources of electricity in the US, 1949–2011. In the United States, nuclear power is provided by 92 commercial reactors with a net capacity of 94.7 gigawatts (GW), with 61 pressurized water reactors and 31 boiling water reactors. [1] In 2019, they produced a total of 809.41 terawatt-hours of electricity, [2 ...

  4. Great River Energy - Wikipedia

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    Great River Energy is an electric transmission and generation cooperative in the U.S. state of Minnesota; it is the state's second largest electric utility, based on generating capacity, and the fifth largest generation and transmission cooperative in the U.S. in terms of assets. [citation needed] Great River Energy was formed in 1999 when Cooperative Power Association and United Power ...

  5. North American power transmission grid - Wikipedia

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    The electric power transmission grid of the contiguous United States consists of 120,000 miles (190,000 km) of lines operated by 500 companies. The electrical power grid that powers Northern America is not a single grid, but is instead divided into multiple wide area synchronous grids. [1] The Eastern Interconnection and the Western ...

  6. Electricity sector of the United States - Wikipedia

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    There is a large array of stakeholders that provide services through electricity generation, transmission, distribution and marketing for industrial, commercial, public and residential customers in the United States. It also includes many public institutions that regulate the sector. In 1996, there were 3,195 electric utilities in the United States, of which fewer than 1,000 were engaged in ...

  7. Power (physics) - Wikipedia

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    Power in mechanical systems is the combination of forces and movement. In particular, power is the product of a force on an object and the object's velocity, or the product of a torque on a shaft and the shaft's angular velocity. Mechanical power is also described as the time derivative of work.

  8. United States Navy Nuclear Propulsion - Wikipedia

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    United States Navy Nuclear Propulsion. The United States Navy Nuclear Propulsion community consists of Naval Officers and Enlisted members who are specially trained to run and maintain the nuclear reactors that power the submarines and aircraft carriers of the United States Navy. Operating more than 80 nuclear-powered ships, the United States ...

  9. Xcel Energy - Wikipedia

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    Xcel Energy Inc. is a U.S. regulated electric utility and natural gas delivery company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, serving more than 3.7 million electric customers and 2.1 million natural gas customers across parts of eight states (Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and New Mexico). [3] It consists of four operating subsidiaries: Northern States ...