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The North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board (1943–60)

In: Engineers, Managers and Politicians

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  • Leslie Hannah

    (London School of Economics)

Abstract

At the opposite end of the spectrum of scale, facing different problems of strategic decision making (but ones which proved no less challenging for all their smallness), was the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board, the only British electricity undertaking which remained independent of the BEA after nationalisation. The North of Scotland, with its sparse population, had always presented serious problems for electrical development, and difficulties had been encountered in exploiting its one potential natural advantage: the availability of sources of hydro-electric power. Some hydro-electric schemes had been developed earlier in the century, but the hydrological conditions were much less favourable than in many countries. These natural handicaps had, however, been artificially accentuated in the 1930s by opposition from landed and sporting interests, who wanted to preserve the Highland wilderness, and by coal-owners and coal-miners, who resented the potential competition and lobbied against the legislation required to establish hydro-electric schemes. Six hydro-electric development bills had been rejected by Parliament since 1929.

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  • Leslie Hannah, 1982. "The North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board (1943–60)," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Engineers, Managers and Politicians, chapter 12, pages 149-157, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-03446-8_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-03446-8_12
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