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Without a heritage, every generation starts over.

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From the Heritage Foundation, this is Heritage Explains.

Yeah. Foundation, this is Heritage Explains. The very first commercial power station in the United States began its life in September

of 1882, operated by the Edison Illuminating Company under the direction of American inventor Thomas Edison.

The coal-burning plant generated enough electricity to power just 400 light bulbs, owned by a total of 82 clients.

And all of those clients lived within a half a mile, because that's the furthest the electricity could be transmitted.

That was one reason the Pearl Street Station, as it was known, was located not in some far-flung

suburban business park, but in the heart of New York City's financial district. The other reason

was publicity. Edison needed to demonstrate the viability of the electrical empire that he was

building. And in that, he was successful. Americans who comprise about 4% of the population

of the world now consume 16% of the world's electricity. Now, with the push for green energy,

governments around the world have pushed for and passed

subsidies for so-called renewable energy sources like wind and solar.

The United States passed large subsidies of this kind under the Biden administration's

Inflation Reduction Act passed in 2022.

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