The City of Gillette's Electric Utility was established back at the turn of the century, in April 1915, many years ago. Electricity is made, or generated, at power plants. Experts devise a system that forces atoms to have an unequal amount of protons and electrons, which creates electricity. Most electricity is created with a turbine generator.
Turbine generators are large magnets inside metal rings that are wrapped with wires.
A turbine forces the magnet to spin, which creates an electric field between the wires. To force the turbine to spin, power plants burn coal, oil and gas or use nuclear power to create steam. The energy in the steam forces the turbine to spin the generator. Some power plants use water or wind to spin the generator. Many utilities are working to develop new sources of energy.