Electrical news and engineering . ay pow-er supply was met by in-stalling a 400 kw., 600 volt, Belliss Morcom, Siemens unit,running at 350 , and additional B & W boilers to sup-ply steam. A 1500 kw. Willans and Robinson, Siemenssteam turbine unit was also installed to meet the load and a spray system for cooling circulating waterwas installed. The electric load continued to grow very rapidly and in1912 and 1913 a new plant with site near a body of water,was considered necessary and the foundation for buildingand machinery was completed in the fall of 1913 and a 1200kw. motor-


Electrical news and engineering . ay pow-er supply was met by in-stalling a 400 kw., 600 volt, Belliss Morcom, Siemens unit,running at 350 , and additional B & W boilers to sup-ply steam. A 1500 kw. Willans and Robinson, Siemenssteam turbine unit was also installed to meet the load and a spray system for cooling circulating waterwas installed. The electric load continued to grow very rapidly and in1912 and 1913 a new plant with site near a body of water,was considered necessary and the foundation for buildingand machinery was completed in the fall of 1913 and a 1200kw. motor-converter (LaCour patent) was installed in No. 1 plant converting 2200 volt power to 600 volt pow-er for railway operation. This new plant is located at thecorner of Winnipeg St. and Douglas Ave. on the shore ofWascana Lake and was to carry a load of 16,000 kw. andto have all essential parts of plant in duplicate and is fittedwith economizers and underfeed stokers. The room was designed for six machines and. tchboard, Regina Municipal Plant THE ELECTRICAL NEWS boiler room for a total of sixteen boilers, fitted with mech-anical stokers. At present four machines are installed, consisting of2-1.)00 kw. turbines, (one moved from No. 1 Power House).1-:>0(K) all Willans & Robinson. Siemens units and kw. General Electric Curtis turbine, leaving spacefor two more machines. .\s Regina is located very far from any reliable sourceof water power a special effort to secure economical gen-eration of power from coal has been made and the expen-sively produced energy has been distributed over a system ttrsaaii! / / o/ / aaiiaK y. ^ ,t,^< i 4^ .^ ^^y .,-< r f-y ^/ < ^ ^ /i d ^IT /3 IB /S Chart of Output of Electric Light andPower Department, Regina made as efficient as consistent with the cost o


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