CHEAPER ELECTRICITY
BIG BRITISH SCHEME TO COST £250,000,000. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 9. How a chain of lattice steel masts 80ffc high and a quarter of a mile apart, connected by cables forming a network over tho country, will convey cheap, electricity to homes and factories under the Government’s £250,000,000 scheme, is disclosed by tho ‘Daily Mail,’ which describes it as the greatest public utility service conceived in the present century. London will feed, in addition to itself, an area from Peterborough to Southampton. The masts, lines, and transformers, alone cost £7,000,000. The standardisation and interconnection of the power houses moan a reduction of London’s seventy stations to ten. Chiswick, one of the three main units, will have. 325,000 kilowatts installed, and a capacity storage of 130.000 tons of coal. Tho current will be distributed at a pressure of 132,000 volts.—Sydney ‘Sun’ Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19658, 10 September 1927, Page 4
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144CHEAPER ELECTRICITY Evening Star, Issue 19658, 10 September 1927, Page 4
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