A BIG SCHEME
ELECTRICITY IN VICTORIA. SYDNEY, Sept. 26. Complete electrification of Victoria is the goal of the Victorian Electricity Commission, and it confidently expects that this aim will be achieved on a practical scale within the next ten years. Big plans have been prepared, and both the country and the metropolis will benefit under them. The uncertainty in regard to coal supplies has been a determining factor in the formulation of this vast scheme.
Already 141 country towns are supplied by the Commission, and of these 95 had no power schemes before. All this has been clone in a little more than five years, as it was not until April, 1924, that the scheme bfegan to function. At present there are 1500 miles of high tension lines throughout the State. Plans have now been made by the Commission up to 1934. The demand for electricity is expected to grow at the present rate of 10,000 kilowatts a year, and new plant to generate this additional power will be required each year. Only a minor portion of the State’s water power has been called upon up to the present. The main generating plant is at Yallorn, where brown coal is available in huge quantities, making the production of power rensonably cheap, and independent of coal supplies from Newcastle. Special plant is installed for the proper utilisation of this coal, and the operations of the Commission to date have been enormously successful.
Jt is the idea of - the Commission to link up on a definite and practical basis all the power schemes of the State, and this is being done in a \way that provides a valuable object (lesson to New South Wales, where there is no commission, but a system that carries in its train, endless waste. For instance, the Railway Department in Sydney is now making more electricity than it needs. Formerly it sold a great deal of its power to the City Council, but now the city has its own plant, greater than its immediate requirements. The need of co-ordination in this direction is sadly apparent.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1929, Page 2
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