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ONE of the principal problems in the management of public electricity supply companies is how to reconcile the costs with the charges not only from year to year but also in their irregular secular changes. Cost data are a matter of fact, but the application of such facts to the special circumstances of individual cases is often a question of policy. There are many ways of segregating and arranging cost data, although any process of segregation so far as electricity is concerned is entirely empirical. Some method of averaging has necessarily to be adopted, and probably the greatest difficulty lies in the determination of the proper allowances to be made for load diversity. As Mr. G. D. Bond points out in the Electrician of May 2, each extension of the field of development makes the problem harder, and it is hardest when the variety of the load on the public network is the greatest. A modern factor which increases tho difficulty of diversity–measurement is arising in those undertakings, where, owing to the development of new loads, there is a consequent shift in the time of incidence of the peak–load.
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Basic Costs in Electricity Supply. Nature 148, 50 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148050b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148050b0