Earlier on, we discussed a phenomenon called the Ferranti Effect.
This is a rise in voltage occurring at the receiving end of a long transmission
line, relative to the voltage at the sending end. This honor belongs to a
British electrical engineer who promoted the installation of large electrical
generating stations and alternating-current distribution networks in England.
This electrical effect was named after Sabastian Ziani de
Ferranti (1864-1930), who in 1887 became the chief engineer for London Electric
Supply Corporation (LESCo), responsible for the design of their power station
at Deptford, England.
What led to this discovery was during the early days of
Ferranti’s work at the Deptford Power Station, an anomaly was experienced when
transmission line voltages remote from the generator rose to levels that
damaged equipment. Intuition led engineers and operators of the time to think
that voltage would decay over long distances, but this turned out to be true
only when the line is loaded.
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