Long electrical transmission lines in Europe

✍ Scribed by G.F.S.

• Book ID: 104123698
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1921
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 64 KB
• Volume: 191
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(21)91683-1

✦ Synopsis

Long Electrical Transmission Lines in Europe. (La Nature, October 25, I92O.)--In this matter the United States of America holds the record with three lines ahnost 40o kin. (250 miles) in length, that of the Au Sable Electric Co. in Michigan, 394 kin. long, operating at ~4o, o0o volts, the slightly shorter line of the Pacific Light and Power Co., Los Angeles, Calif., at 150,000 volts, and finally the system of the Southern Sierra Power Co., also in California, at 14o,o0o volts. In Europe Spain has the longest line. It runs from Molinar to Madrid and is 255 kin. long. Next comes the Italian line from San Dalmazzo to Novi, 250 kin. ~\ second Spanish line from Molinar to Carthagena has a length of 213 kin. All three of these are employing 70,000 volts, but two important lines supplying Barcelona, Spain, are at 88,ooo and 110,O0o volts, respectively.

In France there are two lines about I8o kin. in length, one connecting Lyons to Bozel in the mountains of Savoy and employing the Thury direct-current system of transmission, while the other leads from Ventavon to Arles on the lower Rhone, the voltage being 5o,ooo. There are several other French lines ranging from 15o to 16o kin. in length. One of these from Ugine to Lyons