Industrial notes

Expansion Program for Standard Gas. — Construction of a 25,000-kw capacity addition to the Canal station of Louisville Gas & Electric Co., at Louisville, Ky., has been decided upon. Authorization of this project will result in a total of 160,000 kilowatts of additional generating capacity being under construction during 1940 by public utility operating companies in the Standard Gas & Electric Co. system, and appropriation for the Canal station addition brings the total tentative construction budget of the system for 1940 to over $40,000,000.