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English: Martin substation, South San Francisco, where the high-tension lines running up the peninsula from Newark, via Alviso, end their journey.

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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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andling of its urban and suburban com-muting traffic. The city steam plants servea two-fold function in supplementing themountain hydro plants at times of peak loadand in safeguarding the delivery of powerto points where interruptions would be par-ticularly serious. In addition to standing byfor emergencies, the four steam plants lo-cated in San Francisco, Oakland and Sacra-mento, in the course of a year, generate avery sizable block of power for delivery intothe local systems at 11,000 volts. This ismingled with power from other sources andsent out through the local substations intothe delivery lines. There is one difference worthy of notebetween the railroad transportation systemand our electric transportation network andthat is the uncontrolled demand element.Ever> customer on the delivery lines of anelectric transportation system is privilegedto turn the switch in his house or his placeof business at any hour of the day or nightand instantly to receive the power which hewishes.
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Martin substation. South San Francisco, where the high-tension lines running up the peninsula from; Newark, via Alviso, end their journey. Pacific Service Magazine 383 Automatic Type a Striking Featureof Electric Substation Development The necessity of providing facilities inthe way of transmission and distribution totake care of additional power poured intothe Tacific Service pool from the Pit Riverand elsewhere was called to the attention ofour readers in the preceding article. Inthis connection our Company has been engaged for two years past in a general rcconstruction program in the course of whichseveral modern distributing substations havebeen added to the system. The April, 1925, issue of Pacific ServiceMagazine detailed major features of the rCconstruction work done in the Bay counties. During the past year the work was con-tinued. Equipment to supply increasing de-mands for power was installed in nineteensubstations in the Bay region and three newsubstations were placed in op

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