DescriptionPacific service magazine (1924) (14778291801).jpg
English: South Tower, on the Contra Costa side (near Port Costa) of Carquinez straits, where the Vaca-Dixon–Claremont 110 kV transmission line crosses San Francisco Bay; California
Text Appearing Before Image: Two 20,000 k. V. a. synchronous condensers installed atDixon substation Vaca- Text Appearing After Image: South Tower, on the Contra Costa side of Carquinez straits, where the Vaca-Dixon Claremont 110,000-volt transmission line crosses San Francisco bay From Vaca-Dixon a certain portion ofthe power was fed into the P. G. & E. sys-tem in the Sacramento valley, but thegreater portion was of course required inthe bay region. It was decided that a vol-tage of 110,000 would be economically suit-able for transmission of the power fromVaca-Dixon to Claremont, which wasmarked as the distribution point for theEast Bay section. Accordingly transform-ers to step the power down from 220,000 to110,000 volts were required at Vaca-Dixon,a special 11,000-volt winding being pro-vided for operating the synchronous con-densers described above. At Claremontthe power was again stepped down andfed underground at 11,000 volts to the dis-tributing substations located in the heart ofOakland and Berkeley. But, what of San Francisco? you say. Isthe Dower brought across the bay in cables?This is the case to a li
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