Power System Sites

1891 - the Ames Plant - the first electrical generator - exerpted from the Denver Post

1904 - the Rankine Plant of the Canadian Niagara Power Company - the earliest station still operating

1921 - the Queenston-Chippewa Plant - later renamed the Beck I plant of Ontario Hydro
This Ontario provincial power utility has been restructured into separate entities:
- the generating company Ontario Power Generation
- the service company Hydro One
- the research company Kinectrics
- the Independent Electricity Market Operator.

1968 - the formation of the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) to promote the reliability of the electricity supply for North America.

Hardware and Software

Power System Simulators Quebec, Canada

Cable manufacturers: Alcan , Alcoa , Pirelli , China Cables (the only site with technical content).

Educational Sites

For young people: Electricity: History and Facts as explained to Grade 4 and 5 classes

Power System Course Home Page ENEL 587 developed by Dr. N.D. Rao, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Mack Grady's power system Software and Notes from the University of Texas at Austin

Problems in Electrical Machines and Power Systems: PDF version and Excel version
by C.S. Indulkar of the Papua New Guinea University of Technology

Remote Power Flow Analysis developed by Takao Ueda, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Kitami Institute of Technology

The Virtual Nuclear Tourist , and the Quick Tour