Electricity Commission (UK)

The Electricity Commission was a government department that oversaw the UK's electricity supply industry from 1919 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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