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13.  Approximately, how many electricity customers are there in the United States?

30.  How is it best to describe the relationship between electricity consumption and overall economic activity in U.S.?    

15.  True or false?  Electricity is a form of energy that users can purchase it at one point in time and use it at another point in time, similar to gasoline and propane.

36.  True or false?  Most electric customers receive their electricity from the distribution system level.

17.  Name five energy resources used to generate electricity.

47.  True or false?  A transformer is a static device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another by chemical reaction.

16.  What percentage of the total energy consumed in the United States is electricity?

25.  True or false?  In the Commonwealth of Virginia, residential customers pay less of electricity (cents/kWh) than do commercial customers and industrial customers.

3. True or False?  British Thermal Units (BTUs) are an engineering unit of power.

24.  True or false?  The Commonwealth of Virginia generates a surplus of electricity that is exported to neighboring states.