Capacitor installation at newport news

IN the fall of 1942, load predictions, based on unprecedented expansion of war activities, showed that existing generating and transmission facilities in the Virginia Public Service Company´s eastern division could not supply the kilowatts and kilovars required for the spring of 1943. It was found that no kilovars would be available from the source of transmission to the area but that the kilowatt requirements could be met from the existing generating and transmission sources. It was evident that a new source of reactive current would have to be supplied.