Electricity Commission (UK)
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The Electricity Commission was a government department that oversaw the UK's electricity supply industry from 1919 [1] until nationalisation in 1947. It considered standardization of frequency, regulations for overhead lines, the relative efficiency of gas and electricity and cases of interconnection overseas.
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- Robert Millward, 'The Political Economy of Urban Utilities', in Daunton (ed.), Cambridge Urban History, 342-44.