An electricity-generating station needs to deliver 20 MW of power to a city 1.0 km away. A common voltage for commercial power generators is 22 kV, but a step-up transformer is used to boost the voltage to 230 kV before transmission.
(a) If the resistance of the wires is 2.0 ohms and the electricity costs about 10 cents/kWh, estimate what it costs the utility company to send the power to the city for one day?