Electric Power Problems

Archive Report

Chllenges For Electric Power Industry

Surge In Consumer Demand For Electricity

A growing shortage of electric power is bewildering the American consumer. Blackouts and periods of restricted power use have been experienced in virtually every part of the country; no longer can a housewife assume she will get current at the mère flick of a switch. Service by electric utilities, generally speaking, has deteriorated because expansion of generating capacity has lagged far behind an unprecedented surge of customer demand.1

Four years after the massive Northeast power blackout of November 1965, large private power companies across the country still have not installed the strong interconnections between systems that the Federal Power Commission deems necessary to ensure reliable service. And, in a battle that dates back to the 1920s ...

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