Pacific service magazine . Section of the 4400-foot tunnel leading from dam to power-house. Installing machinery in December, 1926. foundation for the power-house has longsince been completed and now the steelframe is in place and concrete is beingpoured. Work of installing the electricgenerating equipment is in process. Thisconsists of two turbines of a total installedcapacity of 34,000 horsepower, to which aredirectly connectedtwo vertical shaftgenerators of 27,-000 k. V. a. totalcapacity. Bymeans of a bankof transformersthe current gen-e r a ted in thispower-house willbe stepped upfrom a ge
Pacific service magazine . Section of the 4400-foot tunnel leading from dam to power-house. Installing machinery in December, 1926. foundation for the power-house has longsince been completed and now the steelframe is in place and concrete is beingpoured. Work of installing the electricgenerating equipment is in process. Thisconsists of two turbines of a total installedcapacity of 34,000 horsepower, to which aredirectly connectedtwo vertical shaftgenerators of 27,-000 k. V. a. totalcapacity. Bymeans of a bankof transformersthe current gen-e r a ted in thispower-house willbe stepped upfrom a generatingvoltage of 11,000to one of 115,000volts for trans-mission a distanceof lYz miljes toCopperopolis, thenearest point onthe Sierra and Pacific Service Magazine 357 San Francisco Power Companys systemwhere the transmitted electric energy maybe poured into the Pacific Service powerpool. The estimated output of electric energyfrom the Melones plant is placed at 100,-000,000 kilowatt hours per annum, suffi-cient to meet t
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