COLOSSAL POWER SCHEME

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 146, 10 September 1927, Page 1

COLOSSAL POWER SCHEME

BRITAIN’S PLAN STUPENDOUS EXPENDITURE By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright LONDON, Friday, The ‘Daily Mail” describes a scheme proposed by the Government, which will cost £250,000,000, under which a chain of lattice steel masts, 80£t.< high and a quarter of a mile apart and connected by cables forming a network across the country, will convey cheap electricity to houses and factories. The “Mail” describes it as the greatest public utility service which has been conceived in the present century. London will feed, in addition to itself, an area from Peterborough to Southampton. The masts, lines and transformers alone will cost £7,000,000. The standardisation and inter-connection of the power-houses will mean a reduction of the existing 70 stations in London to 10. The Chiswick power-house, one of the three main units, will have engines .which will develop 325,000 kilowatts installed, with a storage capacity of 130,000 tons of coal, which will be sufficient for two months, when working at full pressure. The other two main stations will be erected at Barking and Battersea. The current will be distributed at a pressure of 132,000 volts.—Sun.