ALBANY & HUDSON'S NEW POWER HOUSE IS NEARLY READY
COMPANY WILL HAVE AMPLE POWER FOR ITS BUSINESS AFTER APRIL 15TH
Has Made Many Improvements and Will Spend About $80,000 -- Better Lights, power and Train Service Soon to Come
The power troubles of the Albany and Hudson Railway Co. will be all over in the early spring and then the people of Rensselaer will not only get better street lights but those who use the company's power are promised better service in every way.
For the past eight months the company has had a hard time to get enough power, principally due to the fact that when the company began business it depended to a large extent on hydraulic power from Stuyvesant Falls. The unprecedented drought, however, caused the company serious loss and no end of trouble.
To obviate this it is now spending some $80,000 on betterments. As is generally known the Stuyvesant Falls power house is a combination hydraulic and steam plant... The present plan of improvement is to discontinue the use of the smallest steam engine and install one 1000 K. W. turbo-generator and one 1500 K. W. Frequency Changer set, these machines being the most recent design and most efficient in operation produced by the General Electric Co. of Schenectady.
In 2009 dollars, this upgrade was about $1.9M. Even before the 1909 upgrade, the plant powered 97 miles of third-rail electric train and supplied current for power and lighting.
Back in April 2008, the Business Review ran this article about Albany Engineering Corporation's plans for the historic power plant:
Albany Engineering buys Stuyvesant Falls hydro plant for $210K
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When fully operational, the plant will generate 3,500 kilowatts of power, enough for about 3,500 homes. The renewable energy produced at the station is expected to save 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually.
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