CONSUMPTION OF ELECTRICITY

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21866, 20 August 1936, Page 4

CONSUMPTION OF ELECTRICITY

. ——♦ —— , remarkable increase in BRITAIN ; (BRITISH OmCIH WISBLESS.) RUGBY, August 18. > The consumption of electricity in Britain continues to increase at a tfery rapid rate. ■ The last annual report of the Ceni tral Electricity Board stated that * expansion in this country since 1929 , U P to the end Of last year was 70 P® cent., Compared with an expansion in world output in the same period of 20 per cent. In the first : seven months of 1936 there has been an increase of 16. per cent! over the total at the end' of last year, and the aggregate increase over the last two years amounts to 30 per cent. Because of the remarkable growth m demand the-Central Electricity Board is having: to hurry on with its schemes for the extension of the grid system, the national system of transmission lines, linking supply stations and co-ordinating load. Estimates of the future consumption of electricity made in 1926, at the time of the inception of the grid system, allowed 385 units a head for the present year, but in consequence of the great increase in industrial activity -and- the rate at which the demand is running, it appears likely that an output of about 430 units a head will soon be required.