§ Mr. S. Marshallasked the Minister of Fuel and Power how many electric supply undertakings have taken active steps to insist upon industrial consumers improving the power factor of their electrical installations; and what is the estimated quantity of electricity wasted annually through the low power factor of such installations.
§ Mr. ShinwellI am not aware that an authorised undertaker has any statutory rights under the Electricity (Supply) Acts or the Electricity Supply Regulations to insist upon industrial consumers improving the power factor of their electrical installations; whether authorised undertakers have any such rights by contractual arrangements with their individual346W industrial consumers I am not in a position to say. It is not possible to estimate the quantity of electricity wasted through the low power factor of such installations.