ELECTRIC SUPPLY

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 September 1927, Page 7

ELECTRIC SUPPLY

HOMELAND’S BIG SCHEME. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, Sept. 9. How- a chain of lattice and steel masts 80 feet high, a quarter of a mile apart, connected by cables, and forming a network over the country, will convey cheap electricity to homes and factories, under the Government’s £250,000,000 scheme, is disclosed by the Daily Mail, which describes it as the greatest public utility service conceived in the present century. London will feed, in addition to IV self, the area from Peterborough to Southampton. The masts, lines and transformers alone will cost seven millions. The standardisation and interconnection of the power houses will mean a reduction of London’s seventy stations to ten, Chiswick, one of the three main units, will have 325,000 kilowatts installed, and capacity for the storage of 130,000 tons of coal, which is sufficient for two months’ full pressure working. The other two will be erected at Barking and Battersea. Current will be distributed at a pressure of 132,000 volts.