He is the recognized `` father '' of the Rural Electrification Administration and the Security and Exchange Commission.

Electrification is at 3 kV DC, with the exception of the new high-speed lines, and of two recently electrified lines in the south of the country which are at 25 kV AC.

Electrification is provided by a 3 kV DC system, except at the junctions with railways of foreign countries, and covers.

Electrification began in earnest for local railways in the 1920s and main lines electrification began following World War II using a universal 1, 500V DC standard and eventually, a 20kV standard for rapid intercity main lines ( this is often overlaying 1, 500V DC lines ) and a 25kV AC standard for high-speed Shinkansen lines ).

Electrification is widespread in Europe.

Electrification is the process of powering by electricity and is usually associated with changing over from another power source.

Electrification of Auckland's rail network is currently underway, to the same system as the NIMT, although the two systems will not be connected.

* September 18-The second stage of Brisbane, Australia, Suburban Electrification is commissioned between Bowen Hills and Shorncliffe, and also between Roma Street and Kingston.

* November 17-The first stage of Brisbane Suburban Electrification between Ferny Grove and Darra is commissioned by the Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.

* January – Electrification of the Trans-Siberian Railway, a project begun in 1929, is completed.

* March 12 – Electrification is completed on what is now Hamburg S-Bahn's Line 1 between Ohlsdorf and Poppenbüttel.

Electrification of the piezo actuators is accomplished by applying a high bias voltage to the actuators in step according to the " Six Step " process described above.

Electrification work is expected to be completed by 2013.

This is a list of Railway Electrification Systems in Japan:

GOELRO is the transliteration of the Russian abbreviation for " State Commission for Electrification of Russia " ( Государственная комиссия по электрификации России ).

Basically IRCON is a turnkey construction company that is specialized in Railways ( New Railway lines, rehabilitation / conversion of existing lines, Station Buildings and facilities, Bridges, Tunnels, Signalling and Tele-communication, Railway Electrification, and Wet Leasing of Locomotives ), Highways, EHV sub-station ( engineering, procurement and construction ) and Metro rail.

Electrification from Stafford Road Junction to Oxley, is provided solely to enable electric stock to access Alstom's Oxley TRSMD, and is therefore constructed as a " tram wire " suitable for low speeds only.

Electrification of far villages in the mountain was completed and now, the city is 100 % electrified.

Currently the Rural Electrification scheme continues, but is primarily concerned with upgrading the quality of the network ( voltage fluctuations are still a problem in parts of Ireland-particularly in rural areas ) and making three phase supplies available to larger farms and rural businesses requiring it.

Shore power, as it relates to the trucking industry, is commonly referred to as " Truck Stop Electrification " ( TSE ).

The Rural Electrification Act of 1936 provided federal loans for the installation of electrical distribution systems to serve rural areas of the United States.

Electrification of factories began very gradually in the 1890s after the introduction of a practical DC motor by Frank J. Sprague and accelerated after the AC motor was developed by Nikola Tesla ( Westinghouse ) and others.

Electrification of factories was fastest between 1900 and 1930, aided by the establishment of electric utilities with central stations and the lowering of electricity prices from 1914 to 1917.

Around 1880, not only were railways serving the area, but this was the point where the tram systems coming north from the city, met the Hackney tram system, and so it became a busy interchange, with a depot opening in 1873 .< ref >< cite >' Hackney: Communications ', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 10: Hackney ( 1995 ), pp. 4-10 Date accessed: 1 November 2006 .</ ref > Electrification commenced in 1902 and by 1924 a service was commenced between Stamford Hill and Camden Town along Amhurst Park.

Until his retirement in 1975, Murrl Hathorn was an employee in the Natchitoches office of the Valley Electric Membership Corporation, a part of the Rural Electrification Administration, since purchased by the Southwestern Electric Power Company.

Rural electrification systems, in contrast to urban systems, tend to use higher voltages because of the longer distances covered by those distribution lines ( see Rural Electrification Administration ).

China plans to electrify a further 10, 000 villages by 2010 under their China Village Electrification Program using renewable energy, including further investments in small hydro and photovoltaics.

Electrification of the 10-Townsend line would likely be joined by an extension of the line across Potrero Hill to San Francisco General Hospital.

Electrification started in 1898, and most of the system was converted by 1910.

Electrification systems used by the JR group, Japan's formerly state owned operators, are 1, 500V DC and 20kV AC for conventional lines and 25kV AC for Shinkansen.

Composed largely of technical staff-professional engineers and economists from imperialist times, it was directed by Ivan Gavrilovich Alexandrov, former member of the State Commission for the Electrification of Russia, but not however a member of the Bolshevik Party.

The route between Liverpool Street and Southend Victoria was converted to 25 kV AC between 1976 and 1980 Electrification was extended to Norwich by 1986.

* The Electrification of the Soviet Union, Faber and Faber, 1986, opera by Nigel Osborne

For years after the Rural Electrification Administration was established, many rural residents in the US called cooperatives, regardless of their name, " REA " and would in turn say they were served by REA instead of the cooperative name if asked who their electric provider was.

Electrification and suburban trains was extended along 4. 4 kilometres of single track to Thomastown in 1929, paid for by a land developer who paid for the works, who also guaranteed against operating loses.

Electrification allowed individual machine tools to be powered by electric motors, eliminating line shaft drives from steam engines or water power and allowing higher speeds, making modern large scale manufacturing possible.

Electrification on the outer ends of the Hurstbridge line were completed by 1926, the Whittlesea line to Thomastown was electrified in 1929, and the Burnley-Darling line was extended to Glen Waverley in 1930 to become the Glen Waverley line.

The island was the first offshore island in the Republic of Ireland to get electricity from the Rural Electrification Scheme, run by the E. S. B., in 1957, but was amongst the last places in the country to get universally reliable piped water ( in 1973-75 ) and an automatic phone exchange ( in 1986 ).

Electrification was approved by Parliament in the Mersey Railway Act of 1900, which also terminated the bankruptcy and in July 1901 the Westinghouse contract was signed.

New announcements that are said by the Alstom voice are slowly beginning to be installed to Siemens trains for North Melbourne, Craigieburn and Roxburgh Park stations since the Craigieburn Electrification Project was completed in mid-2007.

Electrification of the South Croydon-East Grinstead line was approved by BR in the early 1980s following which the section between South Croydon-Sanderstead was electrified in 1984 using some redundant materials from the closed Woodside-Selsdon line.