Electricity travels by leaving the power plant and is sent over transmission lines on tall towers. Electricity loses some some of it's strength (voltage) as it travels, so it must be helped along by transformers which boost or "steps up" it's power. Electricity travels in circuit. It flows along power lines to the outlet, through  power cords into appliance, then back through the cord to the outlet and out of the power lines again.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

  Did you know that electricity travels at the speed of light, which is 186,000 miles a second, 22,000 mile around the earth traveling on the equator. That means electricity could travel around the earth 7 times in less then 1 second.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


    How Electricity travels?