COST OF POWER.
AN INTERESTING COMPARISON. Mr. A. Harris told the WangamJ. Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday evening of some fine instances of the comparative cost of power generated by various means. He quoted a 26 h.p. engine driven by town gas in Wanganui. It consumed last month 46,000 c feet of gas, which, at 8s 1000 feet, cost £lB 18s. This corresponds with 1902 units of electricity, which at 4£d per unit, would cost £35 13s 3d.
This meant, eaid Mr. Harris, that if this ratepayer were supplied with electricity on the tramway engineer’s estimate (which Mr. Harris declared would be undcfr cost when generated by the steam plant) the additional cost for power for this one month would be £l7 5s 3d.
But the salient point of it all was that the same firm he quotes can secure power in New Plymouth at $d a unit. So that 1902 units in New Plymouth would cost only £5 18s 10$d, compared with £lB 18s from the gas engine and £35 13s 3d from steam generated electricity at 4|d per unit. “What chance is there of making Wanganui a manufacturing town in the face of that?” asked Mr. Harris.— Chronicle.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1921, Page 7
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200COST OF POWER. Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1921, Page 7
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