§ Sir D. NEWTONasked the President of the Board of Trade how many kilowatt hours of electricity were developed in 1913 in this country, the United States of America, Germany, Belgium and 964W Japan, respectively; and what are the corresponding figures for the years 1923 and 1924?
§ Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER,pursuant to his reply[OFFICIAL REPORT, 5th May, 1925; col. 731],supplied the following answer:.
Official information regarding the aggregate production of electrical energy in this country is not available for the year 1913 or any year near to it. In the year ended March, 1924, the Report of the Electricity Commission shows that 6,682 million kilowatt-hours were produced.
For the United States of America official information is available for the production in 1912 and in 1922 at central electric stations only. The electricity generated at such stations was 11,569 million kilowatt-hours in 1912 and 40,292 million kilowatt-hours in 1922.
I have no official information as to the production in the other countries named; but as regards Belgium, a Report to the Department of Overseas Trade states that there was a capacity of 456,000 kilowatts in 1923 in that country; and as to Japan, the Official Resume of Statistics gives 597,000 kilowatts as the capacity in 1913 and 1,715,000 kilowatts in 1922.