Pacific service magazine (1924) (14781758815)

Identifier: pacificservicema1627paci (find matches)

Title: Pacific service magazine

Year: 1912 (1910s)

Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities

Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library

Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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an Fran-cisco. Furthermore, at this station iseffected the principal inter-connection be-tween the Pacific Gas and Electric Com-pany and the leased Sierra and San Fran-cisco Power Company. The substation building is constructedof reinforced concrete, with steel framing,and the outside walls of the building areplastered the usual buff color. Many largewindows insure a well lighted interior. The large number of 11,000 volt powerlines require many switches for controllingand operating the lines, and this switchequipment occupies a large portion of thebuilding. The outdoor arrangement of the stationis such that additional lines and trans-formers may be added as power require-ments demand. The foregoing description of two com-pletely new major transmission substationsand extensive enlargement of two othersubstations is indicative of the growth ofPacific Service and the great demands forpower made upon it. In excess of $2,500,-000 was expended upon these four sta-tions during the past year.

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Martin Substation, on the bay shore south of Sin Francisco. The old buililing constructe<l in 1905 is seen in the background. 244 Pacific Service Magazine Substations for Local Distribution— Important Work in Bay Counties Substations and the circuits leading fromthem are more responsive to growth of de-mand and variations in the type of loadthan any other part in a power system. Ifa residential district exhibits building ac-tivity the adequacy of the substation servingthat territory must be reviewed at once.Should an industrial growth develop inwhat was formerly a residential section, theload assumes different characteristics, whichmust be cared for in the substation. Evenin this day of automobiles the establishmentof new homes or new factories requires in-creased street railway facilities. In otherwords, while the generating plants reflectthe average load conditions obtainingthroughout a territory of considerable ex-tent, the substation relates strictly to thelocalized condition

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1924

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