Research for and by the electric power industry

Although the electrical utility industry has made an outstanding record in meeting the demands of its customers for electric service and the future seems extremely bright, the collective research effort of the industry does not appear adequate to insure its future against possible inroads of competition from other forms of energy delivery, possible new developments, and from encroachments by government. A broad program of basic research, conducted on a co-operative basis to supplement the existing research conducted by the manufacturers and the utilities themselves, is recommended strongly as a means of insuring the industry´s future.