Altenergy

US Energy Timeline

  • Benjamin Franklin and the Kite

    Benjamin Franklin and the Kite
    Benjamin Franklin tied a key to a kite and discovered that lightening was electricity during a thunderstorm.
  • Natural Gas

    Natural Gas
    In Fredonia, New York, the first US natural gas well was drilled.
  • Black Gold is Struck

    Black Gold is Struck
    Edwin Drake struck oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison
    Thomas Edison invents the first incandescent light bulb.
  • Water Power

    Water Power
    The first hydropower plant in America was built in 1880 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
  • First Solar Cell

    First Solar Cell
    Charles Fritts develops the first solar cell.
  • Tennessee Valley Authority

    Tennessee Valley Authority
    The TVA was a New Deal program in which workers made water power plants.
  • Nuclear Power

    Nuclear Power
    Shippingport Nuclear Power Plant was the first nuclear power plant built in the US.
  • First Successful Geothermal Powerplant in US

    First Successful Geothermal Powerplant in US
    Pacific Gas and Electric started the US's first successful geothermal power plant at the Geysers in California.
  • Roscoe Wind Farm

    Roscoe Wind Farm
    Roscoe Wind Farm in Texas was built in 2008 and is the largest wind farm in the world.