for power surges and peaks of demand is television – so the men in suits in london have to know when X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing are having their finals, or it could all go dark! near to Dartmouth we have two gas power stations in Plymouth and exeter, and a water driven hydro dam on Dartmoor. the Hinkley Point b nuclear Power Station is near bridgewater too.


From the power stations, 400Kilovolts of electricity (for


those who don’t remember from school, a simple way to think about the electricity terms is using the analogy of water in a pipe: Amps would be the speed of the water, volts the water pressure) run along large pylons. they are then ‘transformed’ using a series of substations, from 400Kv to 132kv, then to 33kv, and then to 11kv at your local substation. Dartmouth’s substation is opposite lidls shop. it then travels either over or under the ground (rather like the wombles) through wires at either 415 or 230v depending on the capacity of the wires going into your home – the wires lead into your home through your electricity meter. it is hoped that soon innovative storage systems will be brought in to ensure that the whole country is not living on such an energy knife edge, but until then we depend on the cleverness of the energy planners who ensure the right amount of electricity is produced all day, every day. by Phil Scoble


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