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Substations may be owned and operated by an electrical utility, or may be owned by a large industrial or commercial customer. Generally substations are unattended, relying on SCADA for remote supervision and control. The word substation comes from the days before the distribution system became a grid. As central generation stations became ...
For example, public utility buildings in residential zones of Montgomery County, Maryland are required to have exterior appearance of residential buildings. [ 11 ] Large scale implementations this design strategy is seen in Toronto and Washington, DC where the electric operators put electrical substations in buildings that are disguised as ...
The fourth incident at a utility substation in South Pierce County on Christmas Day prompted stepped-up security. ... Tacoma Public Utilities said that more than 7,000 of its customers in the ...
A former streetcar substation in downtown Renton, built 1898 or 1899 [5]. Seattle was electrified since shortly after its incorporation in 1869. [b] Gas street lamps were installed in part of the downtown area in 1874, [6] but by 1886 (four years after Pearl Street Station was built in New York), the Seattle Electric Light Company had created the first incandescent lighting system west of the ...
Four electricity substations in the Tacoma, Washington, area were attacked Sunday, affecting thousands of customers, authorities said.
The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office said equipment was damaged at two Tacoma Public Utilities substations and two Puget Sound Energy substations, all of which was discovered or occurred Sunday ...
A public utility company (usually just utility) is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service (often also providing a service using that infrastructure). Public utilities are subject to forms of public control and regulation ranging from local community-based groups to statewide government monopolies .
Part of the Plymouth Reliability Project, utility company American Transmission Company is proposing two possible routes to connect to an approved Plymouth Utilities substation to an existing line ...