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Show Grand Coulee Sets New Power Record Grand Coulee Dam. with the world's largest hydroelectric generators; set four new records for the production of electrical energy during 1948. The plant, completed in 1948 by the Bureau of Reclamation, chalked up a new yearly record of 8,415,000,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity and set new marks ' in hourly, daily and monthly outputs. out-puts. The total of more than 8 billion killowatt-hours for 1948 surpasses by far the yearly wartime war-time peak of the power plant. Electrical output during 1948. in terms of manpower, was equivalent equi-valent to the labor of 48.000,000 men working 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. 52 weeks a year. All records established during 1948 are believed without equal, since Grand Coulee's West Powerhouse Pow-erhouse contains the greatest concentration of hydroelectric energy under a single roof in the entire world. Its nine big generators, gen-erators, each with a 'nameplate" rating of 108,000 kilowatts, consistently con-sistently carry loads of 125,000 kilowatts, or 167,500 horsepower. The Bureau plans to have three equally large generators operating operat-ing in the East Powerhouse in 1949. three more in 1950, and the final three in 1951. |