Module #1 Unit A Vocabulary Activity

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Across
  1. 3. a flow of electrons along a path, such as a conductive wire.
  2. 5. acronym for the agency tasked with enforcing laws protecting human health and the environment.
  3. 7. Company, a company which owns or holds stock in other companies, which it then manages and operates.
  4. 8. grid, the modernization of the current grid technology.
  5. 9. to serve; to provide electric service to any customer who seeks that service and is willing to pay the rates set for that service; traditionally, utilities have assumed this in return for an exclusive monopoly franchise.
  6. 10. acronym for the agency formed in 1968 in response to the 1965 blackout; enforces reliability standards.
Down
  1. 1. acronym for the Act that severely limited acquisition of any wholesale or retail electric business through a holding company and restricted ownership of an electric business by non-utility corporations.
  2. 2. Power is generated by using moving water.
  3. 4. a device that changes the voltage of an electric current.
  4. 6. Policy Act of 1993, marked the beginning of competition in the electric power industry.
  5. 11. are substances discharged into the air.