Power for defense: II — National program

BRUSHING aside for the moment any technical difficulties, which are not insuperable, the problem of power-system development on a national scale becomes one of power-system economics and public policy. System planning consists in carefully working out the best means of providing and distributing power to supply the anticipated loads with adequate and reliable service in the most economical manner. System development should naturally follow system planning with such modifications and exceptions as circumstances may warrant. System planning and development on a national scale is but a name for the application to larger areas and a multiplicity of systems of the same methods and processes and similar technical and economic studies as would be adopted on an individual-system basis.