1939 A RECORD BREAKING YEAR IN ELECTRICITY
1939 a Record Breaking Year in Electricity More Electric Energy Is Produced Than Ever Before in U. S. WASHINGTON, D. C—The Federal Powter commission Issued this week a report showing 1939 to be a...
...These per capita data are an innovation in this year's reprrt...
...Fuel Use High In showing 1939 to be the highest year of record for the consumption of fuel by electric generating plants, the report sta es that coal consumption increased 14.8 per cent: fuel oil 33.2 per cent...
...Electric generating equipment operated by Internal combustion engines showed a net Increase of 10.7 per cent over 1938...
...and per capita statistics relating to the production of electric energy and the rapacity cf electric generating plants...
...the report states, while hydro plants showed an Increase of 3.2 per cent and steam a net increase of 3.1 per cent over the previous year...
...1939 a Record Breaking Year in Electricity More Electric Energy Is Produced Than Ever Before in U. S. WASHINGTON, D. C—The Federal Powter commission Issued this week a report showing 1939 to be a record-breaking year In me production of electric energy and the Installed capacity of electric generating facilities...
...The total production of electric energy by hydroelectric plants dropped 1.8 per cent below that for 1838, whereas total production by hydro and all other types of equipment combined increased 12 per cent over the previous year...
...Crosses State Ltnea The report shows that 1939 net energy transfers between the United States and Canada slightly Increased over 1938, while net energy transfers with Mexico showed a alight decrease...
...of the total...
...and gas 12 per cent over 1938 Production by all types of fuel plants amounted to 66.2 per cent of total production during 1939, the report shows, while hydroelectric plants produced the remainder, or 33.8 per cen...
...2) an increase of 1,275,819 kilowatt* of generating rapacity during the year, to reach a new high of 40.318,000 kilowatts in service at the end of 1939...
...The Installed capac'ty of electric generating plants reached a new high of 40.317.91:4 kilowatts in service on Dec...
...The average consumption of fuel per kilowatt-hour, computed on the basis of coal and the coal equivalent of other fuels except wood, showed a slight decrease over 1938, the 1939 figure being 1.39 pounds per kilowatt-hour as asalnst 1.41 pounds for the previous year...
...Summarizing, during 1939 the United States imported a total of 1,918.630,000 kilowatt-hours from Canada and 38,000 kilowatt-hours from Mexico, and exported 4.236.000 kilowalt-hours to Canada and 14,081,000 kilownll-houra to Mexico...
...This represents a net increase of 1, 275,819 kilowatts over 1938...
...3) an all-time high for the amount of fuel consumed by generating plants...
...The six-part report covers the production of electric energy In the United States...
...consumption j of fuel by electric generating plants...
...and (4) an Increase In the efficiency of fuel burning plants reflected by a lower average amount of fuel required to produce a kilowatt-hour of electric energy...
...Indications are that the 1939 production by water power plants was somewhat affected by lack of rainfall during the latter part of the year...
...Installed capacity of all types of equipment, hydro plants amounting to 28.3 per cent and steam plants to 69.6 per cent...
...The new report, entitled "Electric Power Statistics—1039," shows (1) a 12 per cent increase over 1938 production to a new peak of 130 billion (130, 336,000,000) kilowatt-hours in 1939...
...Ions...
...installed capacity of generating plants, scheduled additions j of generating capacity...
...The name "Balkans" is Turkish for "mountains...
...31, 1939, the report states...
...Although the rate of growth of plants operated by internal combustion engine equipment has been, for the period from 1920 through 1939, four times that for hydroelectric plants and 4.8 times that of steam plants, the report points out that such figures tend to exaggerate the present importance of internal combustion plants with respect to the total, for at the end of 1939 the capacity of internal combustion plants amounted to only 2.1 per cent of the lota...
...The report points out that, since the study considered only thermal j efficiency and gave no consideration I to the cost per Btu, it should not be considered as a measure of the rcla- I tive economy of the different types of sta...
...I movement of electric energy across state lines and international boundaries...
...The chapter on fuel consumption in the publication contains the results of a detailed study of fuel consumed during 1938 Indicating that fttel plants using oil had the highest average efflclcrcy from the standpoint of over-all thermal efficiency expressed in British thermal units required per kilowatt-hour...
...A net balance of 1,900,351.000 kilowatt-hours was imported from foreign countries during 1939, and approximately 97 per cent of the total Imported entered the United States over transmission lines from Ontario into New York state...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 25
