There is, I think, no undertaking in Shanghai that we should take such pride in as the Electricity Department. Ten years ago Manchester, the largest municipal undertaking in Great Britain, sold 127 million K, W. hours as against Shanghai's 49° million; for the year ending March, 1926, Manchester sold 300 million as compared with: our Electricity Department's 400!
'As against' Manchester's load ctor of 32 per cent, Shanghai's 53 per cent., which is the highest obtained by any electricity undertaking in the world.
During the same period the capital outlay has increased from seven. million taels in 1916 to 30 million in 1926, but the nett profit expected for this year is two million taels.
The capacity of the plant wa in 1916, 19,000 K. W.; it is now, 121,000 and the Department now on order a 20,000 K. W. set with speed of 3,000 R.P.M. and a steam pressure of 350 Ib, per square inch.
This steady and continuous demand for electricity for light, heat and power during these times of, Jdepression and political uncertain ty, even though the demand has been created to a large extent by the efforts of those responsible for the Department, shows that there is room for optimism in the future.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.