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Identifier: pacificgaselectr61915paci (find matches)
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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ant. Thearea covered by allthe buildings repre-sents about eightacres, and informa-tion is given out thatthe improvementswhich have just beencompleted are butthe beginning of aseries of enlarge-ments that will ulti-mately make the re-finery at Crockettline of the largest, ifnot the very largest,in the world. Plansthat are al presentdrawn, of which llierecent enlargementsare a part, conlem-plate a refinery witha melting capaeily of n;^^ n,«-su(?»r C.ir«o .1,()()0.U00 ))()linils of sugar per day..\ few years ago this plant was oper-ated entirely by steam-driven maeiiinery,or by motors which received llieir cur-rent from generators driven by sleanimachinery in liie plant of the sugar re-finery. Iive years ago the nianagemenldecided to try ■Tacific Service. stalingal Ihe lime llml it was absolutely neces-sary lo have conlinuous power, thai be-ing one of Ihe essentials and a moreiniportani one than any oilier connectedWilli the purchase f outside power. The 80 Pacific Service Magazine
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Interior of the fact.iry. ReatliiiR a.iwnward from the top, right to left: Cube machine; small package room; putting up small bags; automatic small-bag machine; sewing filled sacks by machinery; packing room, where sugar is placed in containers. Pacific Service Magazine 81 play- company tried Pa-cific Service in asmall way for ayear, installing atthe time a set ofthree 75 k.v.a. trans-formers. About twoyears later, beingwell satisfied withthe experiment andthe service rendered,it installed a secondset of three trans-formers, of 150 k.v.a.each, to work in con-junction with the first set installed. Theservice since the installation of the sec-ond set of transformers has been so verysatisfactory that the companj has de-cided it can afTord to operate its plantwith Pacific Service without fear ofinterruption to its business, and to thatend, and instead of installing steam ma-chinery to generate power for its ownuse, it has just installed a new substationcontaining four 500 k. v. a. transfo

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