Tejo Power Station (history)
In the last quarter of the 20th century, Lisbon, much like most of the principle European cities, was in the midst of utter expansion, and electricity consumption accompanied the city’s rate of urbanisation: firstly replacing gas in public lighting, then with electric engines gaining increasing advantages in industry and finally, the more affluent homes initiating the era of domestic use of electricity.In the Portuguese capital there were two power stations that supplied the city with electricity: the Avenida Power Station (1889) and the Boavista Power Station (1903). Their names were intimately connected to their locations; it was for this same reason that during the Tejo Power Station’s initial stages, toponymy remained in use and it was originally named the Junqueira Power Station, being located in the Junqueira district. Despite everything, this name didn’t last long since, once construction was concluded, official documents and the plant’s facade took on the name of the river that borders it – Tejo Power Station.