. The Street railway journal . on the cost of distributing energy in this way are of prac-tical interest. The cost of generating power is now knownby the majority of companies operating modern powerhouses in the United States. The cost of the alternating-current distribution through sub-stations, however, is apoint upon which there is not much information available,and the figures on this furnished by A. S. Richey, electricalengineer, are very acceptable. The accompanying tables give the cost of power for sixmonths at the bus-bars of the Anderson power house, bothin totals and per kilowatt hou
. The Street railway journal . on the cost of distributing energy in this way are of prac-tical interest. The cost of generating power is now knownby the majority of companies operating modern powerhouses in the United States. The cost of the alternating-current distribution through sub-stations, however, is apoint upon which there is not much information available,and the figures on this furnished by A. S. Richey, electricalengineer, are very acceptable. The accompanying tables give the cost of power for sixmonths at the bus-bars of the Anderson power house, bothin totals and per kilowatt hour, and also the cost of power. FIG. 14.—SECTION OF TRACK LIGHTED BY ARC HEADLIGHT FIG. SUB-STATION was very circuitous because of the difficulty of obtainingthe consent of property owners or of purchasing propertyat anything but unreasonable figures. The Indiana Legis-lature at its last session passed a law enabling electric roadsto condemn land after the same manner as steam has made it possible to straighten the road and give delivered at the direct-current bus-bars of the output of the sub-stations in kilowatt-hours and thatof the main generating station are shown. The difference,which is in the neighborhood of 21 per cent, represents theloss in step-up transformers, 14,000-volt, high-tension line,step-down transformers and rotary converters. The item Table Showing Cost of Power at Low-Tension Bus-Bars at Generating Station, also Total Cost at Sub-Station Direct-Current Bus-Bars. Union Traction Co. of Indiana. [The figures of sreneratins; station cost being in italics.]
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