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vii. manufacturing industries.
considerable transmission of power was that effected in 1892—93, between
IIättsjön power-station and the Grängesberg mines. The power transmitted
amounted to 300 h. p., the tension being 9 000 volts, and the distance 14
kilometers. During the following ten years,. a great number of similar
undertakings were started, chiefly for mining and factory service.
At the same time, in a good number of towns and other populous places,
local central stations were erected, chiefly for. lighting purposes; in some
cases they were driven by water-power, though more generally by steam.
The first municipal steam central station in Stockholm city was erected
in 1891—92. (It may be mentioned as a curiosity that Härnösand was
the first town in Europe to establish — in 1885 — an electric generating
plant for street lighting.)
Power Station, Trollhättan.
Finally, during the last ten years, a large number of power plants
have been established, which distribute energy over wide areas of the
country to a number of industries and communes, and from whose chief
mains secondary supply-lines radiate for the purpose of local distribution,
for the lighting of houses, for smaller industrial undertakings,
agriculture, etc. The most important plant of this kind is that at the
Trollhätte falls, which is State-owned and has a total capacity of about 83 000
h. p. In Skåne and the neighbouring parts, Sydsvenska
kraftaktiebolaget distributes energy over a wide area (including the larger towns).
In Elekinge and east Skåne there is a large power-distributing
enterprise, Hemsjö kraftaktiebolag, and in Västergötland there are two. both
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