I hate to say this, but how we get electricity doesn’t appear to be very well understood by nearly everyone in the country. It takes a great deal of energy and materials to produce, transport and deliver electricity to the end users. No matter what form of energy is used to produce electricity, it is not free.And if we examined the end-to-end life cycle costs, we would all probably be amazed.Electricity is called a second source of energy – it is derived from primary sources such as coal, natural gas, solar, wind, nuclear and hydropower.