Titlebook: Engineers, Managers and Politicians; Electricity Supply I Leslie Hannah Book 1982 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Li

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to a new public body, the British Electricity Authority. (The industry unsuccessfully requested that ‘Supply’ should be included in the title to avoid confusion with the other ‘BEA’, British European Airways.)

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13581-1s in these winters, despite attempts to reduce the peak demand by less drastic means. The latter included exhortations to consumers to switch off appliances, reductions in supply voltages by 5 per cent (which was considered the maximum tolerable limit), and encouragement to industrialists voluntaril

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ure on matters where he respected the Board Chairmen’s views, such as tariffs, than on matters where he was determined to impose his own, as in labour relations. However, the statutorily-entrenched power of the area chairmen meant that they were more successful than any other group within the Author

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k growth, but neither the Central Authority nor the Government, they argued, should attempt, for short-term reasons, to blunt the commercial edge of the industry. They were anxious to build up their Board’s commercial skills and saw this as an essential part of gaining the advantages of larger-scale

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1769-3air, giving top level support to those within the department who were seeking changes over a wide range of policies. The time was, moreover, now ripe for considerable rethinking: the more serious capacity problems had been overcome and steel and other materials were more freely available, as the eco

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137304773ich his deputy chairmen had responsibility for developing policy, devoted his own energies most firmly and consistently to the improvements he considered necessary in the area of labour management. It was evident to his colleagues from the beginning that he would insist on a high priority for labour

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The Holistic Treatment of Sleep Disordersilderness, and by coal-owners and coal-miners, who resented the potential competition and lobbied against the legislation required to establish hydro-electric schemes. Six hydro-electric development bills had been rejected by Parliament since 1929.