LAKE COLERIDGE POWER STATION
MORE POWERFUL GENERATORS INSTALLED 2y 'Telegraph.—Press Association Christchurch, July 11. Anxiety as to the supply of electric power for Canterbury from Lake Coleridge has been allayed as the result of successful testing of No.. 7 generating set, the capacity of which is 7aOU k.w. The new generator was synchronised at 3.15 on Friday, and carried about 500 k.w. of the Christchurch load. On Saturday the new set carried approximately 2000 k.w. of the citv load between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Some small adjustments to the governor will be required to be made before the set can be put into regular service. These will be completed by the middle of the present week. Advantage was taken of the filling of the new tunnel to open across a drive between the new surge chamber and the old one, thus raising the level of the water in the old surge chamber and automatically increasing the generating capacity of the 12,000 k.w. set, which has been limited bv the pressure available from the No. Itunnel. The No. 7 generator at Coleridge is the largest individual set operating in the Dominion at present but will be eclipsed by the big sets to be installed in the North Island schemes.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 255, 12 July 1926, Page 6
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