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SW Area Table 3

Table 3 South West England: Electricity Supply Undertakings 1925/26

  County System Generating Capacity kW Per Capita Consumption kWh
Local Authorities        
Barnstaple Devon DC 1,050 46.3
Bath Somerset AC/DC 4,700 67.5
Bristol Gloucester AC/DC 35,390 149.5
Exeter Devon AC/DC 5,800 59.4
Lyme Regis Dorset DC 200 35.6
Plymouth Devon AC/DC 17,450 68.0
Sidmouth Devon DC 174 13.3
Taunton Somerset AC/DC 2,500 43.1
Tiverton Devon DC 152 5.8
Torquay Devon AC/DC 10,225 113.0
Companies        
Bideford & District Devon AC 200 7.7
Bridgwater & District Somerset DC 800 26.3
Brixham Gas Co. Devon DC 200 10.5
Bude Cornwall DC 236 61.5
Budleigh Salterton Devon DC 66 17.7
Burnham & District Somerset DC 240 22.7
Callington & District Cornwall DC 50 4.6
Camborne Cornwall AC 1 8.0
Chudleigh Devon DC 38 9.0
Dartmoutha Devon DC 330 37.7
Dawlish Devon DC 200 37.1
Exmouthb Devon DC 515 20.8
Falmouthb Cornwall DC 502 18.3
Fromec Somerset DC 725 132.4
Holsworthy Gas & Elect Devon DC 45 31.8
Ilfracombe Devon DC 330 16.0
Illogana Cornwall AC 1 4.1
Mid-Somerset Somerset DC 2 30.9
Minehead Somerset AC/DC 438 64.8
Newquay Cornwall DC 295 49.4
North Somerset Somerset AC 3 10.7
Paignton Devon DC 4 48.2
Penzance & District Cornwall AC 1 28.2
Redrutha Cornwall AC 1 1.6
Seaton & District Devon DC 80 9.7
Teignmouth Devon DC 190 10.9
Totnesb Devon DC 164 16.0
Weston-Super-Mar Weston-Super-Mar AC/DC 3,500 48.2
Yeovil Somerset DC 160 7.3
Power Company        
Cornwall Electric Power Cornwall AC 9,700 ..

Notes:
Urban Electric Supply Co.
Electric Supply Corporation
Edmundson’s Electricity             

1 Bulk supply from Cornwall Electric Power Co.
2 Supply from C & J Clark, shoe manufacturers.
3 Bulk supply from Bristol Corporation.
4 Bulk supply from Torquay Corporation.

Source: Electricity Commissioners, Engineering and Financial Statistics 1925/26.

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