The prices for electric supply

The paper draws attention to the inequality of prices charged to consumers of electricity in various districts where one would expect the charges to be about the same. Examples are given of very low charges in a residential town of moderate size, in a wide district where the charges are uniform in town and country, and also in a small town where the prices might be expected to be higher. These examples show how low the prices might be to consumers all over the country if there were a common scheme for supplying electricity arranged by a central board. Suggestions are made for improving the load factor.