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  2. War of the currents - Wikipedia

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    The war of the currents was a series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems in the late 1880s and early 1890s. It grew out of two lighting systems developed in the late 1870s and early 1880s; arc lamp street lighting running on high-voltage alternating current (AC), and large-scale low-voltage direct current (DC) indoor incandescent lighting ...

  3. Altadena winds weren't strong enough to warrant Edison ... - AOL

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    The company's power lines ignited the Thomas fire in 2017, a Ventura and Santa Barbara County fire that killed two and created the conditions that led to a mudflow in Montecito that killed 21 people.

  4. Electric power distribution - Wikipedia

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    Edison's propaganda campaign was short-lived, with his company switching over to AC in 1892. AC became the dominant form of transmission of power with innovations in Europe and the US in electric motor designs, and the development of engineered universal systems allowing the large number of legacy systems to be connected to large AC grids. [6] [7]

  5. Pepco - Wikipedia

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    The Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO) is an American utility company that supplies electric power to the city of Washington, D.C., and to surrounding communities in Maryland. It is owned by Exelon. The company's current trademarked slogan is "Your life. Plugged in." Its former slogan was "We're connected to you by more than power lines."

  6. Power lines over Eaton Canyon saw surge in current before ...

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    Four Southern California Edison lines over Eaton Canyon saw a momentary increase of electrical current about the same time the destructive Eaton fire is believed to have ignited on Jan. 7, the ...

  7. We cannot afford to delay modernizing the US power grid - AOL

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    It consists today of 11,000 generation plants, 5.5 million miles of transmission and distribution lines (enough to stretch to the moon and back 46 times), 180 million power poles, 3,000 electric ...