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How the first electric grid was built
When Britain actually made something
To spare passersby the noise of the generator, to gain access to cooling water, and to allow it to buy cheaper coal transported by river, the corporation moved to a new base in Deptford. The private entities operated under a franchise system and feared that when these expired, local authorities would scoop up urban distribution, leaving them with only small uneconomic bits of rural infrastructure. As the energy demands of London, Manchester, Merseyside, and Tyneside increased, there was a need to transmit electricity generated by coal plants in the East Midlands and Yorkshire, whose grids had surplus power.
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