What is "substations"

Usage examples of "substations".

In the Energy Control Center a highspeed logging typewriter came to life, chattering, spewing out status reports as hundreds of high voltage circuit breakers at switching centers and substations sprang open at computer command.

With ninety-four generating plants, scores of service yards and warehouses, hundreds of unattended substations, a series of widely scattered district offices and a central headquarters comprising two connected high-rise buildings, provision of strict security, even if possible, would cost a fortune.

Josie and I went the night those Friends of Freedom people blew up the substations and we bad a power failure.

Black overland wires stretched across the landscape, extending to substations where the electricity was sold to other landholdings.

The transformers and substations extended back into the rock, where cables ascended through a crack up to the overland wires.