In electricity plants how much power would you need to power a small town and how would you get the energy

Question: In electricity plants how much power would you need to power a small town and how would you get the energy
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Asked by DLANG to Cathal on 7 Mar 2017.
- Cathal Ó Murchú answered on 7 Mar 2017:
  
  Aside from renewable energy supplies (wind, solar, wave) all electricity plants work the same way. First you burn fuel (oil, gas, coal or peat, nuclear power plants are bit different) to heat water up and turn it into steam. The steam pushes turbines (think of how a fan works, it spins and moves air, a turbine works the exact opposite, the air moves and spins the turbine) the turbines spin a generator which makes electricity. A generator is at its basic level a loop of wire moving inside a magnet. Once moving electricity flows out the wire to your house.

Question: In electricity plants how much power would you need to power a small town and how would you get the energy