Interconnection of power systems in the Southeastern states

SUPERPOWER, or giant power, as Governor Pinchot prefers to call it, has been very much before the public for the last two years. General Tripp with his clear vision and masterly exposition of this great subject has done much to clarify and make understandable to the general public the problem involved and the effect of its solution. The appeal to the imagination of a completely electrified country has resulted in great public interest in the matter, so that it is but natural for the politicians seeking an issue and the advocates of government ownership to give their attention to this new problem as being fraught with more possibilities than the more settled railroad, telephone and telegraph systems. While there is a tremendous engineering problem involved, there are other and equally important phases that must be carefully considered before superpower and complete interconnection will be an accomplished fact.