In time he had supplied a number of nearby consumers with electric light. It was later on in the year in September 1882 that Edison opened the Pearl Street Power Station in New York City and again it was a DC supply. It was for this reason the generation was close to or on the consumer's premises as Edison had no means of voltage conversion. The voltage chosen for any electrical system is a compromise. Edison opened the world's first steam-powered electricity generating station at Holborn Viaduct in London, where he had gone into a concurrence with the City Corporation for a time of a quarter of a year to give street lighting.
The general impact was that Edison's system required power stations to be within a mile of the consumers. While this could work in city centers, it is unable to economically supply suburbs with power. Unfortunately it also increases the peril from direct contact and increases the required insulation thickness. Furthermore, some heap types were troublesome or impossible to make work with higher voltages. Be that as it may, the cutting edge pattern has been growing deregulation in at any rate the last two processes. For a given measure of power transmitted, increasing the voltage reduces the current and therefore reduces the required wire thickness.