Abstract :
A total of 536 public service generating stations in Great Britain is shown by the report of the “Electricity Commission” for the year ending March 31, 1922. Of this number 366 utilized steam as a source of power, 55 producer gas, 47 oil engines and the remainder other means, including water power. The Electrical Division of the Department of Commerce states that only seven stations depend exclusively upon water power, the largest of which produced 18,763,000 of the total of 29,107,000 kw-hr. generated from this source.
