ELECTRICITY IN ENGLAND.
DEVELOPMENT OF SUPPLIES (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Nov. 22. The Central Electricity Board announced to-day that as the construction of a “grid” had been completed in Mid-East England trading operations in that area would begin on January 1. Under the “grid” scheme the production of electricity, in that area will be concentrated in sixteen selected stations. These include two at Kirkstall and Ferrybridge which have reached full efficiency per unit. They are generating an excess of 23 per cent., the national average being about 16 per cent. The sixteen stations are inter-con-nected by main transmission lines operating at 132,000 volts, with extensions to link up with the north-east, north-west, and south-west areas. A secondary system at 33,000 volts has been developed to open un certain agricultural districts and the transmission lines’ used in the schemo total 525 miles.
As well as being' an important industrial centre, the Mid-East England area includes wide stretches of agricultural territory until recently undeveloped electrically.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 306, 24 November 1932, Page 7
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