上海是中国电力事业起步的地方。清光绪八年六月十二日(1882年7月26日)晚上7时,由英国人立德尔等招股筹银五万两成立的上海电气公司创办的上海第一家电厂开始供电。夜幕下,在6.4公里长的供电线路上串接的15盏弧光灯一齐发光,令人眼前一亮。成百上千的中国人带着惊讶又新奇的心情驻足围观,次日上海的中外报纸都做了电灯发光的报道。由此而后的130余年,电力事业在中国从无到有、由弱到强。上海也是中国电能表计的渊薮和滥觞之处。 Shanghai is where China’s power industry started. On the evening of June 12, 1862 (July 26, 1882), the first power plant in Shanghai set up by the Shanghai Electric Company, which was founded by a Britishman such as Liddell and raised by 522 thousand U.S. dollars, began to supply power. In the evenings, 15 arc lamps connected in series on the 6.4 km long power supply line shone together. Hundreds and thousands of Chinese people stopped in the crowd with astonishment and novelty. The next day, newspapers in Shanghai and in China made reports on the glowing lights. From then on for more than 130 years, the power industry in China from scratch, from weak to strong. Shanghai is also a source and source of China’s energy meters.