POWER AND LIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 4, 6 January 1926, Page 6

POWER AND LIGHT

CHANGEOVER REACHES KHAND ALLAH.

Something over 4000. premises, including about 100 business premises, have now been changed over to the new voltage, in Seatoun, Miramar, Evans Bay, Kilbirnie, Lyall Bay, and the Courtenay place business area. Linesmen are now busy in the Khandallah area, and have practically'completed the reconditioning of power lines in the streets, and are getting into full stride with tho inside work, upon individual installations. A good deal of work has been done in the city area; promises between K^nt terrace and Tory street are changed over, and those between Clydo quay and Taranaki street are practically ready for the new power, while a number of new or rebuilt buildings in the centre of the . city are also receiving power at 230 volts/ v

Meanwhile the load upon the 105 volt system is being constantly added ■. to, for building continues in all parts of the city and. suburbs, change-over or no change-over, in Newtown, Island Bay, Karori, Northland, Wadestown, but a stage will be reached when 90 per cent.: of all new connections will be 230 volt connections, and the going will then be fairly straight ahead: and the worry of danger of overloading of the 105 power installations (the chief difficulty is"one of transformer 'capacity) a thing of the past.

In tho suburbs a great deal of out- / side work in connection with district transformer stations, street lines,: etc, has to be done to handle a comparatively small power load, for houses are pretty well spaced,, and .each after all takes merely' a.'.trifle of power, as compared with an industrial establishment. When the changeover reaches well into the.city and factory areas the reverse, will be tt»o case, for one business block may Sail for as much power as a residential area, and a big relief will be given at once to the special plant which changes the new (Mangahao and Evans Bay) power back to the oldtime conditions. '