Abstract :
The paper calls attention in the first place to the consumption of coal in the United Kingdom, and the less of heat which is taking place in electric generating stations. It suggests the combination of heat distribution with the generation of electric current as a possible means of using the coal to better advantage. It further proposes the conversion of some of the existing generating stations which would be shut down under the superstation scheme, and which are conveniently situated, into heatdistribution stations generating electric current as a by-product, and the linking up of such stations with the super-stations. The paper gives some particulars of a typical district showing the probable heating and lighting loads, and finally describes installations; already carried out in this country.
