ELECTRIC SUPPLY
WESTPORT’S CHANGE POWER FROM STEAM PLANT (For Press Association.) WESTPORT, last night. The Westport Borough has been experiencing difficulties in supplying electric power to keep up with increasing demand for electricity in the Buller district. The existing hydroelectric station at Fairdown is not able to supply the demand and the borough council has decided to purchase bulk power from the Westport Coal Company, Limited.
The company has a large steam power generating station in Denniston, the largest bituminous coal mine in the Dominion. Though there are other steam power stations in New Zealand, the plant at Denniston will be the most modern in the Dominion, and it will play an important part in the production of electricity in this country.
The low capital costs in conjunction with hydro-electric plants and where coal fuel can be produced cheaply tend to bring generating costs down to the costs of hydro-electric generation. There are many much plants in Britain and the United States of America, and the time may not be far distant when there will be more steam plants in the Dominion, thus giving considerable assistance to the coal mining industry.
The installation of the modern plant in Denniston will be of considerable importance to electric supply authorities in New Zealand.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20049, 22 September 1939, Page 6
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211ELECTRIC SUPPLY Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20049, 22 September 1939, Page 6
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