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POWER STATIONS
A power station is a factory which makes electricity. Northern
Ireland's public supply of electricity began in 1892 when our first
power station opened in Larne.
Three years later, Belfast Corporation began to supply Belfast
with electricity. The power stations in Northern Ireland are connected
to every home in the province through hundreds of miles of wires.
The power stations are also connected to the Republic of Ireland
by two interconnectors. These allow electricity to cross backwards
and forwards across the border whenever it's needed.
There are lots of ways of producing electricity, but they all involve
changing some other form of energy into electrical energy.
Click here to see some
of the ways electricity can be made.
Northern Ireland uses fossil fuel power stations. These change
the chemical energy stored in coal, oil and gas into electrical
energy.
To learn more about fossil fuel power stations turn to the next
page...
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