City of Portsmouth Electricity Undertaking
From Graces Guide
of High Street, Portsmouth
Portsmouth Municipality was the first public authority to employ a steam power plant in its power station. The 150 kW turbine-generator was installed alongside two 212 kW units with reciprocating engines, and provided the first demonstration of the ease with which slow-speed engine-driven alternators could be operated in parallel with slow speed engine-driven alternators. The alternators were Ferranti's first with a revolving field (rather than stationary field and revolving armature).[1] See Portsmouth Electric Supply Works
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Sources of Information
- ↑ 'The Early Days of the Power Station Industry' by R. H. Parsons. 1939, Babcock & Wilcox, Cambridge University Press