ELECTRICITY SUPPLIES
AUSTRALIA PLANNING BIG EXPANSION (Hee. 9.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, May 25. In the next eight years. Australia will spend £276.003.000 in providing additional electric power. This will not include the Snowy river scheme which may cost £209,000.000 in the next 25 years. Projects in hand or contemplated will more than double Australia's generating capacity by 1958. when it is estimated that the installed capacity will be 5.574.538 kilowatts. The figure for 1975, which includes the Snowy river output, is 8.800.000 kilowatts. By 1958, New South Wales. Victoria and Western Australia should each have a total installed electric gene-a-tion capacity 250 per cent, of the present capacity. Queensland’s cacacity should be doubled, that of Tasmania and South Australia quadrupled. and that of Victoria trebled..
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26122, 26 May 1950, Page 7
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