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Central Electricity Research Laboratories, Symposium on chimney plume rise and dispersion, Atmospheric Environment (1967) 1, 351–440. Central Electricity Generating Board, Modern Power Station Practice, 5 volumes (Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1971). Central Electricity Generating Board, How Electricity Is Made and Transmitted (CEGB, London, 1972).
The United Kingdom Central Electricity Board (CEB) was established by the Electricity (Supply) Act 1926. It had the duty to supply electricity to authorised electricity undertakers, to determine which power stations would be 'selected' stations to generate electricity for the board, to provide main transmission lines to interconnect selected stations and electricity undertakers, and to ...
In 1990, as part of the privatisation of the UK electricity industry, the board became Midlands Electricity plc. The new business was split up, and sold several times: the supply business to Npower in 1999, the distribution business to GPU Power UK, who continued to use the ‘a Midlands Electricity company’ tagline for a couple of years, and then sold to Aquila, under whose short ownership ...
There was significant growth of demand and use of electricity. Under the terms of the Electricity (Supply) Act 1926 (16-17 Geo. 5 c. 51) [6] the Central Electricity Board (CEB) was established in 1926. [7] The CEB identified high efficiency ‘selected’ power stations that would supply electricity most effectively.
The issues of fragmentation, inefficiency and complexity of the British electricity supply industry had long been recognised. [4] [5] The Electricity (Supply) Acts 1919 and 1926 had attempted to provide central coordination and control of operations, through the creation of the Electricity Commissioners and the Central Electricity Board respectively, but with only partial effectiveness.
Belvedere power station was developed by the British Electricity Authority and subsequently by the Central Electricity Authority (1955–57) and from 1958 by the Central Electricity Generating Board. [1] It was constructed between 1954 and 1960 on a riverside site originally acquired by the West Kent Electric Company in 1919. [1]
The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) was a body that managed and operated the electricity supply industry in England and Wales between 1 April 1955 and 31 December 1957. . The CEA replaced the earlier British Electricity Authority (BEA) as a result of the Electricity Reorganisation (Scotland) Act 1954, which moved responsibility for Scottish electricity supply to the Scottish Offi
The Electricity Act 1957 (5 & 6 Eliz. 2.c. 48) (repealed 1989) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom.The principal impact of the Act was the dissolution of the Central Electricity Authority, which it replaced with the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) and the Electricity Council.