Power supply in USA & England

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by ppppenguin

Since the US has a lower voltage supply than the UK the transformers need to be closer to people's houses to minimise voltage drop without spending a lot of money on thicker wires. So in urban and suburban areas in the UK is common practice to have a transformer in each street rather than one for every few houses.

One thing I noticed in the 'burbs around New York is that utility poles are rarely truly upright. A row of them looks like a group of drunks. Or perhaps that was just LILCO (Long Island Lighting Company) who don't have plumb bobs or spirit levels.

The LILCO installations have probably been there for a long time.
WE Energies just installed new distributions in this semi-rural area and they're perfectly plumb. The existing installations are starting to list rather badly.