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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #301 Electrifying Sydney: Transformational Energy Systems
Description: In the early 1900s Sydney was transformed by its first electric lighting system, which was so bright compared to gas lamps it was hailed as “turning night into day”. The network did much more than just light up the streets. It democratised power, electrifying communities, homes and businesses for the first time. The system, designed by London based engineering consultants Preece & Cardew, became the basis for today’s electricity grid and ushered in a century of electrical evolution as the system rapidly expanded to meet soaring demand.
Today society is facing a new kind of energy transformation: to deca...