Before Electric Industry Consolidation
In New York City, as many as ten privately-owned utilities provided service.
The lead article in the June issue of Public Utilities Fortnightly, by Tom Flaherty and Owen Ward, tells the story of the electric industry's consolidation. The impact on the number and size of companies has been extraordinary.
Let's go back in time, to well before the consolidation of the last 20 years.
Take a look at the 1925 NELA Rate Book, published 91 years ago. NELA, the National Electric Light Association, was the Edison Electric Institute of its day.