Toronto Hydro Substations

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Toronto hydro substations. Building an open public thoroughfare or an exterior open space. Some appear like grand georgian mansions or late victorian buildings while others look like humble suburban homes. Pleasant substation duration. These requirements are intended to provide guidance to toronto hydro customers in designing and constructing 138 kv or 276 kv customer owned substations for the purpose of.

So for the past hundred years canadas second largest municipal electricity distribution company toronto hydro has been disguising substations into quiet little houses that blend right in with the neighbourhood. The earliest stations of which duncan station at 29 nelson street is the oldest 1910 still standing were generally larger than homes and aped the size shape and style of torontos fancier office buildings and industrial warehouses. Toronto hydro set up an in house team of unnamed architects whose purpose was to clothe the substations in the fashionable brick masonry and woodwork of the day. Substation owned electrical equipment connected to toronto hydro 138 kv.

A assuring safe conditions for customer and toronto hydro personnel in operating and maintaining customer owned substations. Metering requirements for 138kv and 276kv customer owned substations pdf 457 kb reference 8. Odpn vancouver 1363 views. How toronto hydro is constructing canadas 2nd underground transformer station duration.

These are torontos residential substations fake houses built by toronto hydro to conceal whats inside. Toronto hydro owns and operates an electricity distribution system that delivers electricity to 768000 customers in canadas largest city. Toronto hydro regulatory affairs 14 carlton street toronto on m5b 1k5. Or 276 kv system.