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Electricity Commissioners
Company typeGovernment Regulatory Body
IndustryEnergy: Electricity supply
FoundedFebruary 1920
Defunct31 March 1948
FateIndustry nationalisation
SuccessorBritish Electricity Authority
HeadquartersSavoy Court, Strand,
London WC2
,
United Kingdom
Area served
Great Britain
Key people
See section in text
ServicesRegulation of electricity industry
Number of employees
40 (1920)

The Electricity Commissioners were a department of the United Kingdom government's Ministry of Transport, which regulated the electricity supply industry from 1920 until nationalisation in 1948. It was responsible for securing reorganisation on a regional basis and considered schemes for centralisation in a small number of large generating stations owned by joint electricity authorities.

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