Using direct current, this U.S. metropolis' first electric supplier was the Pearl Street Power Station in 1882
[DOC] [TLE] Powering A Generation: Power History #2 [PAR] The modern electric utility industry in the United States can be traced to the 
invention ... and he installed the world's first central generating plant on Pearl 
Street in New York ... the motive power to generators, which produced direct-
current (DC) electricity to shop ... Samuel Insull and Economies of Scale with 
Steam Turbines.