Pacific service magazine . y sketch-ily the various meansused in one particularcase to bring the powergenerated in the moun-tains down to the centersof population where it ismost useful. There aremany other angles to theproblem than those men-tioned, however. For in-stance, consider the longstretches of line comingdown from the moun-tains and the constantdanger of breakdownfrom storms, fallingtrees and what not. Tofind the break in such aline and to repair it maytake several hours, andyet with the standards ofservice as they exist today a shut down of aconsumer for one-half a minue is consid-e
Pacific service magazine . y sketch-ily the various meansused in one particularcase to bring the powergenerated in the moun-tains down to the centersof population where it ismost useful. There aremany other angles to theproblem than those men-tioned, however. For in-stance, consider the longstretches of line comingdown from the moun-tains and the constantdanger of breakdownfrom storms, fallingtrees and what not. Tofind the break in such aline and to repair it maytake several hours, andyet with the standards ofservice as they exist today a shut down of aconsumer for one-half a minue is consid-ered serious by our operating , then, is this service maintained ? Theanswer to this question could well be madethe subject of a length article itself, butbriefly, it may be stated that the service ismaintained, first, by the intelligent use of alarge inter-connected system of transmissionlines from the various power houses, thusenabling the load dispatcher to shut off theline in trouble and to supply the power. Type 46 k. v. a. 2300-volt inductionregulator from some other source; secondly, by theuse of steam generating stations which,though more expensive than the hydroplants, are indispensable for use when thehydro fails as well as for helping out dur-ing time of peak high quality ofelectric service main-tained in California to-day is due in no smallmeasure to the inter-con-nected system in opera-tion from end to end ofthe State, and it is ex-actly this sort of a systemwhich the eastern powercompanies are aiming atwhen they speak ofsuperpower. As to thisword superpower, itwould seem to fall farshort of expressing thatfor which it now it is not a superpower scheme that is pro-jected on the Easterncoast, but merely the in-telligent use of our natu-ral resources, includingwater, coal and oil, to theend that electric powermay be economically pro-duced and delivered atthe points where its usewill prove of the great-est benefit to all. In closing, it
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