The first long-distance transmission of alternating current…

June 1891 CE

The first long-distance transmission of alternating current is made by the Ames power plant near Telluride, Colorado, by Lucien and Paul Nunn on June 21, 1891.

The Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant and the original Niagara Falls Adams Power Plant are among the first hydroelectric alternating current power plants.

The first long distance transmission of single-phase electricity was from a hydroelectric generating plant in Oregon at Willamette Falls which in 1890 had sent power fourteen miles downriver to downtown Portland for street lighting.

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