MUNICIPAL ELECTRICITY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 305, 20 September 1919, Page 12

MUNICIPAL ELECTRICITY

AND THE DOMESTIC CONSUMER. Tito City Council on Thursday received from the acting-general manager of_ tlio municipal electric lighting department a very favourublo report.upon sue rceulta achieved by the Institution of tho onemotcr system in 'connection with tho electrical supply to domestic consumers. Tho report instanced the civsb of 108 consumers who had been for 13' months under tlio new '-system and who were connected for over a year en the old system. On the old system with two meters theso houses paid J3J96 9s. for 34,4-10 units, under the new system with one meter they paid .C'so2 is. Gd. for 40,090 units, or £a 15s. Gd. mure, and for this extra amount they received 5050 units additional, or, in other words, for an increase of approximately Id. per month they have received 4.4. units per month extra. Tho average rate under tho old system was 3.459 d. per' unit, under tho new system the average woe 3.001U1. por unit. These injures proved conclusively Hint the consumers, as a* body, were benefiting by the new tariff, and that the new system tends to popularise the ÜBO of electricity-. An analysis of tho balance-sheet showed tho revenue from various .sources to he: Lighting:, <1'(i1),925; street lighting, M2M; heating, .£8688; power, .£4910; sundries, .£281; total revenue, .£90,102. Whilst domestic consumors numbered 82 per cent, of total connections, they only contributed 35 per cent, of lighting revenue, an ; average of ss. per month each for lighting.