110:. The Act provided for the Commissioners to constitute electricity districts and, where necessary, to establish joint electricity authorities (JEAs), ‘to provide or secure the provision of a cheap and abundant supply of electricity’, with the agreement of the electricity undertakings concerned. The aim of the joint authorities was to produce electricity more economically by inter-connecting power stations and transmission systems. The authority would acquire all the power stations in the area and build large, efficient and economic super-stations. In the event only four joint authorities were established: the London and Home Counties JEA; the North Wales & South Cheshire JEA; the North West Midlands JEA; and the West Midlands JEA.
143:(commissioned 1932). However, there was local opposition to the proposal for Ironbrige, landowners in Buildwas opposed the compulsory purchase of land. A local inquiry was held where changes to the area were put forward. Further objections resulted in another local inquiry. Formal consent was only granted in August 1928. The JEA's stations were linked through a transmission system operating at 33 kV. On 1 October 1938 the JEA took over Shrewsbury power station from the local authority. The interconnected power stations enabled the JEA to reduce the wholesale price of electricity by one-third between 1930 and 1936.
131:. The JEA included representatives of the Midland Electricity Corporation; Wolverhampton, Walsall, West Bromwich, Cannock and Shrewsbury councils; colliery owners; railway companies; and electricity industry workers. In June 1927 the West Midlands JEA offered for sale £2 million of stock on the stock market, which was used to purchase the generating stations and transmission lines in the district. In late 1927 the West Midlands JEA acquired four power stations: Ocker Hill formerly operated by the
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Midlands Joint Electricity Authority was formally established on 21 December 1925 by the West Midlands Electricity District Order 1925 made under section 7 of the Electricity (Supply) Act 1919. The district covered an area of about 1,000 square miles, including most of
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Midlands JEA was considered to have been successful. It took over the operation of power stations in its area and built a large-scale station at Ironbridge all of which were interconnected with high voltage transmission lines.
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71:Area served
689:Categories
674:085188105X
595:24 October
546:24 October
521:0333220862
490:References
358:Not WMJEA
286:Total, MW
240:1,175,000
121:Shropshire
90:Background
566:The Times
442:Abolition
274:2 × 6.25
268:1 × 13.2
54:Successor
458:See also
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412:685,148
404:140,008
398:194,065
392:719,244
384:125,271
378:331,275
372:841,859
352:398,740
341:Walsall
306:398,740
280:2 × 7.5
278:3 × 5.0
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265:4 × 5.5
262:2 × 3.2
260:1 × 3.0
249:460,000
246:314,000
243:540,000
229:Walsall
203:122,895
195:106,479
30:Industry
424:99,860
421:28,893
401:30,849
395:31,314
381:13,212
375:22,889
364:10,553
361:12,718
315:10,553
312:12,718
257:2 × 50
187:91,368
179:73,809
171:58,981
46:Defunct
38:Founded
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200:1927
192:1925
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160:Year
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