Energy Events

By dlewis49
  • Natural gas well

    Natural gas well

    First natural gas well dug by Edwin Drake.
  • First practical use of coal for electricity

    First practical use of coal for electricity

    1882 Edison built the first practical coal-fired electric generating station
  • Edison Water Power

    Edison Water Power

    The first Edison hydroelectric power plant, the Vulcan Street Plant, in Appleton, Wisconsin, with an output of about 12.5 kilowatts.
  • Solar cell Invented

    Solar cell Invented

    Russel Ohl invents the solar cell, an efficient way of capturing light and ccnverting it to electricity.
  • First Geothermal Power Plant

    First Geothermal Power Plant

    John D. Grant drills a well at The Geysers with the intention of generating electricity. This effort is unsuccessful, but one year later Grant meets with success across the valley at another site, and the United States' first geothermal power plant goes into operation.
  • First Nuclear Power Plant

    First Nuclear Power Plant

    2 days and 58 years ago the first nuclear power plant opens, near Moscow russia.
  • SEGS I Solar Power Plant

    SEGS I Solar Power Plant

    The SEGS plants are the largest Solar Power Plants in the world.
  • Spanish wind energy surpasses coal.

    Spanish wind energy surpasses coal.

    Wind overtakes coal in energy produced, in Spain.

  • Alta Wind Power CA Commissioned

    In 2012 the U.S.'s largets wind power facility was commissioned in California.
  • First wind power usage for electricity

    First wind power usage for electricity

    Professor James Blyth, built a wind turbine in his garden and used the electricity it produced to charge accumulators which he used to power the lights in his cottage.