Central Electricity Authority (UK)

Central Electricity Authority (UK)

The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) was a United Kingdom the body that ran the electricity supply industry in England and Wales between 1954 and 1957. The CEA replaced the earlier British Electricity Authority (BEA) as a result of the "Electricity Reorganisation (Scotland) Act 1954". It was in turn dissolved by the "Electricity Act 1957" and replaced by the Central Electricity Generating Board and the Electricity Council.

ee also

* Timeline of the UK electricity supply industry

References

* [http://www.competition-commission.org.uk/rep_pub/reports/1986/fulltext/203c02.pdf Report by UK Competition Commission on The South of Scotland Electricity Board, 1986]


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