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Title: Pacific Gas and Electric magazine
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Public utilities
Publisher: (San Francisco, Calif.) : Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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ive horsepower in motors driv-ing irrigating pumps; today there are in bothirrigating and reclamation work not less than2,500 horsepower ready at a moments noticeto respond, through the Woodland substation,to the demands of the farmer. Last, but not least, in the homes, in thestores, in fact in any of the walks of life,either in a social or business way, there is anincreased demand for electric current. Our lines extend first to Woodland, thento the west to Madison, on the south to Wil- Pacific Service Magazine 1£ low Slough on the way to Plainfield; on thenorth they extend to Knights Landing andstill farther on to the Colusa County line; tothe northwest to and beyond the town of Yolo,and to the east to Elkhorn and the SacramentoRiver. and Knights Landing Substation permittingeither station to carry the others load at will.On June 21st, 1912, ground was firstbroken for the new re-inforced concrete hornsof light and power now known as PacificService. The architectural design is of the
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Interior of Woodland substation, showing transformers The Bay 60 K. V. transmission lines,which cross the Sacramento River at Vernonon the way to the Bay Counties, pass to theeast of Woodland about two miles. Tapsfrom both Bay lines No. 1 and No. 2 arerun to the Woodland substation on a two-circuit wooden pole line. These tap lines arecarried on suspension insulators and are sup-ported vertically one line on either side of thepole. Switches are provided at each end ofthe lines to permit the usual maintenance. Atthe substation the flexibility is such that eitherline may be opened without interrupting theservice from Woodland. There is also an I IK. V. tie line between Woodland Substation Spanish Renaissance, verging on the Missiontype, and is most striking in appearance, beingunlike anything to be seen in Yolo County. As to the size of the new Substation andihe equipment upon its floor, it is in markedcontrast to the old Substation, formerly lo-cated at the Gas Works on the corner ofFo

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