Some new methods in high-tension line construction

The great economies in the cost of generating power which have been obtained in the large steam turbine stations and hydroelectric plants, are leading to the general abandonment of small generating stations and the increase in transmission distances in order to distribute power over a large territory. In other words, 100,000 h.p. can be generated in one station and transmitted 100 miles cheaper than it can be generated and distributed from ten 10,000-h.p. stations near the center of load. On account of this tendency toward the concentration of generating units, the overhead transmission line has assumed a position of great importance in electrical installations, and the same permanency and reliability is demanded of it as of the generating station itself. The wooden pole line of the past has been practically abandoned and steel construction has been substituted.