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Generating electricity Electricity is made by generators. But the generators don't exactly generate electricity, they have to use something in order to get it, it doesn't come from nowhere. Generators simply change one form of natural into another form of energy called electricity, a form of energy, which is very helpful to us. We generate electricity because although there is a lot of energy in moving water, or in wind, we cannot use that form of energy to power a light bulb or run a computer hundreds or thousands of kilometres away. Generators, which come in many sizes, work on a principle that was discovered by Michael Faraday, in 1831. Faraday discovered that electricity could be produced in a coil of copper wire by moving it near a magnet. How a generator works Modern generators have magnets and wires that spin very close to one another. One set of magnets spin inside a set of stationary...

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