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Third Taxing District

2 Second Street
Norwalk, CT 06855

Power Stations

This is a place where electricity is created and sent to our homes and other places where it’s needed.

Furnaces

An enclosed structure that makes things very hot.

Turbines

This is a machine that creates continuous power in which a wheel, or something similar, moves round and round by a fast-moving flow of water, steam, gas or air.

Generators

A machine that converts energy into electricity.

Volts

The size of the force that sends electrons through a circuit

Megawatt

This is a unit of power that is equal to 1,000,000 watts and is a measure of how much electricity a power station makes

Fuses

These are safety devices. A fuse is a strip of wire that melts and breaks an electric circuit if it goes over a safe level.