Some notes on isolated plants

It is perhaps necessary to offer some excuse for presenting to The American Institute of Electrical Engineers some notes on isolated plant design and operation. The general impression is that designing an isolated plant is hardly to be dignified by the term “engineering”. The central station looms so large and the cost of the large central plant so greatly surpasses the largest isolated plant, in the general opinion, as to place questions of design of such stations in a different class from the questions entering into the design of an isolated plant.