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- This article is about electrification. For the Dressy Bessy Album, see Electrified (Album). For the Pink Cream 69 album see Electrifed
Electrification refers to the modification of a system so that it operates using electricity.
Electric grid
A more specific usage of the word refers to the act or process of building the necessary infrastructure to supply electric power to homes and businesses, especially in rural and isolated areas or the changeover of a railway from in the past steam locomotives, but now most often diesel-powered locomotives to electric locomotives. The infrastructure required for electrification includes power plants, long haul transmission lines, substations and shorter distribution lines to the end user.
Countries
One of the largest electrification projects was the GOELRO plan, adopted in 1920 and fulfilled in 1931 in the USSR.
In the United States, widespread rural electrification began with the establishment of the Rural Electric Administration (REA) in 1935 and its associated local Rural Electric Cooperatives.
Electrification pioneers
Electrification of transportation
Main article: Electric vehicleElectrification of transportation is the use of hybrid electric and all-electric vehicles instead of all-petroleum vehicles.
Energy Resilience
Main article: Energy resilienceElectricity is the ‘stickiest’ form of energy and it is multi-sourced. As a result, it gives the greatest degree of energy resilience .
