ELECTRICITY SUPPLY

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 10, 6 October 1927, Page 3

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY

OVER SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND NEW SCHEME PROPOSED Bi Telegraph.—Press association. COPYRIGH.. Rugby, October 4. The system of electricity supply over Ixindon' and the whole of South-east England will be transformed under the scheme of the Electricity Commissioners issued to-day. Its purpose is the co-ordination of electrical development and the cheapening of power, by a reduction in the number of main generating stations, and by other economies. The present scheme, which is the second of the kind, the first applying to Scotland, deals with an area of over 8800 square miles, stretching from Peterborough on the north and Reading on the west, to the South and East Coasts, and has a population of about eleven and a half millions There are now 152 generating stations in this area, including seventeen used solely for power for trams and railways. The scheme will in a few years reduce them to eighteen capital stations, the remaining stations being used as converting and distributing CC 'l'he S primary distribution from the main generating stations will be made, except in the inner London area, by means of overhead. 132,000-volt trans mission cables, carried on steel towers across the countryside. Allowing for the increased us of electricity, it is estimated that the scheme by 1940 will have halved the cost, of power,.and effected an annual saving of £16,.100,000 to consumers in the area. The scheme will remain before the public,, for six weeks, during which time representations mav be made to. the Central Electricity Board bv the interested par-ties.—-British "Official Wireless.