Electricity
The term 'electricity' refers to the presence and flow of an electric charge. The most common form is that which is used to power appliances, machines and devices by the flow of electrons through conductors such as copper wires.
Static electricity refers to electric charges that are static and not moving, while an electric current is created when charges are dynamic and moving.
Articles relating to electricity on Designing Buildings:
- 2021 PRS electrical safety standards.
- 18th Edition Wiring Regulations.
- Amendment 3 BS 7671 Requirements for Electrical Installations IET Wiring
- Ampere
- Appliance
- Approved Document P
- Approved document R
- Arcing
- Are electric bikes the future?
- Battery energy storage systems with grid-connected solar photovoltaics BR 514
- Battery storage
- Bluetooth
- Building an electrical grid for our times.
- Busbar.
- Cable carrier.
- Can we keep the lights on
- CAT5
- Changing patterns in domestic energy use FB 76
- Circuit breaker
- Combined heat and power
- Community energy network
- Consumer electronics
- Consumer unit
- Creating a smarter, more flexible energy system
- DC electricity networks
- DC isolators for photovoltaic systems (FB 68)
- Developing system intelligence for optimising building electricity networks
- Domestic heat pumps and the electricity supply system
- Domestic micro-generation
- ECA
- ECA 2018 Apprentice of the Year
- ECA articles
- EIC apprentice support programme
- Electric
- Electric current.
- Electric lock
- Electric motor
- Electric vehicles
- Electrical appliance
- Electrical component
- Electrical conduit.
- Electrical consumption
- Electrical control systems
- Electrical drawing
- Electrical energy
- Electrical engineer
- Electrical equipment
- Electrical installation
- Electrical power
- Electrical safety
- Electrical safety in the private rented sector.
- Electrical system
- Electrical wiring
- Electrician
- Electricity bill
- Electricity supply
- Electromagnetic field
- Electrotechnical Assessment Specification guidance for installers
- Energy
- Energy harvesting
- Energy storage
- Energy storage - the missing piece?
- Energy storage in buildings - a technology overview BG73 2018
- Ethernet
- Extranet
- Faraday Challenge
- Feed in tariff
- Flexible electrical networks for a low carbon future
- Formula E drives electric vehicle market forward
- Fuel cell
- Fuse
- Future of electricity in domestic buildings
- Glossary of electrical terms.
- Grommet.
- High-speed electronic communication network
- How the Electrical Industries Charity helps tackle domestic abuse
- Hydroelectricity
- IET Wiring Regulations
- In-building wireless
- Information and communications technology
- Internet of things
- Kilowatt hour
- Large scale solar thermal energy
- Load balancers
- Local area network
- Making the most of renewable energy systems DG 531
- Micro-CHP
- Microgeneration
- Micro-grids
- On-site generation of heat and power
- Power factor
- Power generation
- Power over ethernet
- Power over USB
- Protected circuit
- PV inverter
- Renewable energy
- Rewiring
- Safe isolation for low voltage
- Smart buildings
- Smart cities
- Smart meter owners report higher, not lower, bills
- Smart technology
- Solar photovoltaics
- Subsidy-free low carbon electricity
- Sustainable development: energy challenge
- Switchgear
- The future of electricity in domestic buildings
- The future of UK power generation
- The UK's low-carbon future is increasingly electric
- The use of batteries to store electricity for buildings
- Tidal lagoon power
- Transformer
- Types of fuel cells
- Ubiquitous sensors to assess energy consumption and wellbeing in domestic environments
- Uninterrupted power supply for buildings
- Utilities
- Voltage
- Watt
- Why the UK needs to support emerging tech like energy storage
- WiFi
- Will we burn fossil fuels to power wind turbines in the future?
- WiMax
- Wind Energy in the United Kingdom
- Wind farm
- Wind turbine
- Wireless electric highways
- ZigBee
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