Electricity Commission (UK)
- Electricity Commission (UK)
The Electricity Commission was a government department that oversaw the UK's electricity supply industry from 1919 [http://www3.oup.co.uk/tweceb/hdb/Volume_14/Issue_04/pdf/hgw001.pdf] until nationalisation in 1947. It considered standardization of frequency, regulations for overhead lines, the relative efficiency of gas and electricity and cases of interconnection overseas.
References
* Robert Millward, 'The Political Economy of Urban Utilities', in Daunton (ed.), "Cambridge Urban History", 342-44.
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