Electricity supply in French Indochina

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The electricity supply in French Indochina was not established on a larger scale until after the First World War , although the first electrical systems were built in the country as early as the end of the 19th century.

In 1937, 64 power plants with an installed capacity of 61.263 MW fed 75 million kWh into the public grid. 62 of the 64 were thermal power plants , which were mostly fired with coal mined in Tonkin , there were also two hydropower plants .

Private companies operated 23 additional power plants (19 thermal power plants, four hydropower plants) for the direct supply of large industrial plants or mines ; these had an installed capacity of 32.1 MW and produced 78 million kWh in 1937. electrical power.

About half of the electricity was produced in Cochinchina in 1937 , a third in Tonkin, and the remaining sixth in the remaining three parts of the country. The main consumers were in the major cities of Hanoi , Haiphong , Saigon and Phnom Penh . Almost half of the electricity produced was used for lighting and industry, around five percent for the operation of electric trams . The per capita consumption of electrical energy for lighting was 1.3 kWh in 1937.

literature

  • Production et consumption d'energy électrique en Indochine en 1937. In: Bulletin économique de l'Indochine. Vol. 41, 1938, ISSN  0259-8612

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Naval Intelligence Division (Ed.): Indo-China In: Geographical handbook series , BR 510, p. 330f. HMSO, Cambridge, 1943.