WATER HEATERS FREE
ENCOURAGING CONSUMPTION OF
ELECTRICITY.
ONTARIO COMMISSION’S SCHEME. '
Toronto, May 17. To increase the domestic use of electric current the Ontario Hydro-Elec-tric Power Commission, the largest State-owned enterprise of its kind in the world, is providing and installing, free of charge to the consumer, 50,000 Water heaters in homes throughout the province. Within a year it is anticipated that about 100,000 such heaters will have been given away, the consumer paying only for the current used at a flat rate.
The purpose of this step is, of course, to establish a greater domestic market for surplus power now being produced, and it is estimated that on the average the heaters will consume each one horsepower of electrical energy. The Hydro-Electric Commission is building the heaters to its own standards and specifications, and the work necessarily will create a considerable market for material and labour.
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Southland Times, Issue 22046, 20 June 1933, Page 6
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146WATER HEATERS FREE Southland Times, Issue 22046, 20 June 1933, Page 6
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