ELECTRIC POWER
CONSUMPTION IN BRITAIN INCREASING AT RAPID RATE (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, August 13. (Received August 19, at 5.5 p.m.) The consumption of electricity in Britain continues to increase at a very rapid rate. The last annual report of the Central Electricity Board stated that expansion in this country since 1929 up to the end of last year has been 70 per cent., compared with the expansion in world output in the same period of 20 per cent. In the first seven months of 1936 there had been an increase of 16 per cent over the total at the end of last year and the aggregate increase over the past two years amounts to 30 per cent. Estimates of the future consumption of electricity made in 1926, at the time of the inception of the grid system, allowed 385 units per 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 per head will soon be required.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22964, 20 August 1936, Page 11
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