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North Eastern Electric Supply Company

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The North Eastern Electric Supply Company (commonly abbreviated to NESCo) was responsible for the supply of electricity to a large amount of North East England, prior to the nationalisation of the British electricity industry with the Electricity Act 1947. [1]

31 relations: British Electricity Authority, Carville power stations, Charles Algernon Parsons, Charles Hesterman Merz, Chief executive officer, Dunston Power Station, Electricity, Electricity Act 1947, Electricity Council, John Theodore Merz, Macmillan Publishers, Mains electricity, Merz & McLellan, Nationalization, Neptune Bank Power Station, Newcastle and District Electric Lighting Company, Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England, North Eastern Electricity Board, North Tees Power Station, Pandon Dene Power Station, Privately held company, River Tyne, The National Archives (United Kingdom), Three-phase electric power, Tyneside Electrics, United Kingdom, University of Pennsylvania, William McLellan (Scottish electrical engineer), World War I, York.

British Electricity Authority

The British Electricity Authority (BEA) was established as the central British electricity authority in 1948 under the nationalisation of the Great Britain's electricity supply industry.

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Carville power stations

Carville Power Station refers to a pair of now partially demolished coal-fired power stations, situated in North East England on the north bank of the River Tyne at Wallsend.

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Charles Algernon Parsons

Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, (13 June 1854 – 11 February 1931), the son of a member of the Irish peerage,http://www.tcd.ie/Secretary/FellowsScholars/discourses/discourses/1968_Lord%20Rosse%20on%20W.%20Parsons.pdf was an Anglo-Irish engineer, best known for his invention of the compound steam turbine, and as the namesake of C. A. Parsons and Company.

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Charles Hesterman Merz

Charles Hesterman Merz (5 October 1874 – 14 or 15 October 1940) was a British electrical engineer who pioneered the use of high-voltage three-phase AC power distribution in the United Kingdom, building a system in the North East of England in the early 20th century that became the model for the country's National Grid.

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Chief executive officer

Chief executive officer (CEO) is the position of the most senior corporate officer, executive, administrator, or other leader in charge of managing an organization especially an independent legal entity such as a company or nonprofit institution.

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Dunston Power Station

Dunston Power Station refers to a pair of adjacent coal-fired power stations in the North East of England, now demolished.

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Electricity

Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of electric charge.

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Electricity Act 1947

The Electricity Act 1947 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that nationalised 505 separate electricity generation and supply organizations in Great Britain on 1 April 1948, both privately owned and state owned, and consolidated them into 14 area electricity boards of the new Central Electricity Authority that the Act created (also known as the British Electricity Authority), which subsequently became the Central Electricity Generating Board.

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Electricity Council

The Electricity Council was a governmental body set up in 1957 to oversee the electricity supply industry in England and Wales.

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John Theodore Merz

John Theodore Merz (30 March 1840 – 21 March 1922) was a German British chemist, historian and industrialist.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers Ltd (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group) is an international publishing company owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

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Mains electricity

Mains electricity (as it is known in the UK; US terms include grid power, wall power, and domestic power) is the general-purpose alternating-current (AC) electric power supply.

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Merz & McLellan

Merz and McLellan was a leading British electrical engineering consultancy based in Newcastle.

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Nationalization

Nationalization (or nationalisation) is the process of transforming private assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state.

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Neptune Bank Power Station

Neptune Bank Power Station was a coal-fired power station situated on the River Tyne at Wallsend near Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Newcastle and District Electric Lighting Company

The Newcastle and District Electric Lighting Company (abbreviated to DISCo) was a pre-nationalisation, private electricity supply company, based in Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England.

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Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne, commonly known as Newcastle, is a city in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 103 miles (166 km) south of Edinburgh and 277 miles (446 km) north of London on the northern bank of the River Tyne, from the North Sea.

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North East England

North East England is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.

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North Eastern Electricity Board

North Eastern Electricity Board was an electricity distribution utility in England, serving the North East of England.

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North Tees Power Station

North Tees Power Station refers to a series of three coal-fired power stations on the River Tees at Billingham in County Durham.

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Pandon Dene Power Station

Pandon Dene Power Station was an early coal-fired power station situated on the Pandon Dene, to the east of Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Privately held company

A privately held company, private company, or close corporation is a business company owned either by non-governmental organizations or by a relatively small number of shareholders or company members which does not offer or trade its company stock (shares) to the general public on the stock market exchanges, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned and traded or exchanged privately.

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River Tyne

The River Tyne is a river in North East England and its length (excluding tributaries) is.

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The National Archives (United Kingdom)

The National Archives (TNA) is a non-ministerial government department.

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Three-phase electric power

Three-phase electric power is a common method of alternating current electric power generation, transmission, and distribution.

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Tyneside Electrics

The Tyneside Electrics were the suburban railways on Tyneside that the North Eastern Railway and the London and North Eastern Railway electrified using the third rail system.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.

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William McLellan (Scottish electrical engineer)

Colonel William McLellan CBE (1874–1934) was a Scottish electrical engineer.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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York

York is a historic walled city at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Eastern_Electric_Supply_Company

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