Mingled hydro and steam power production in California — Past, present, and future

E. E. George (Phoenix Engineering Corporation, New York, N. Y.): The history, condition, and prospects of power generation in California are presented in Mr. Markwart´s paper in a very interesting, logical, and comprehensive manner. The importance of this subject to electrical engineers is self-evident. Similar studies of the other integrated areas might well be prepared for presentation to the Institute at future meetings. Many factors in the California situation are paralleled by those in the southeastern part of the United States except that the southeast is the victim of a more ruthless attitude on the part of governmental agencies. While development on the West Coast has been disturbed merely by a lack of orderly development, government policies in the southeast have tended toward the destruction of private ownership of generation, transmission, and distribution, instead of merely toward securing a preferred market for power generated under public ownership.