From the archives: Electricity in the Highlands, 4 July, 1950
While pointing out that by far the larger proportion of the electricity generated was sold in the board’s area, Mr Johnston deprecated any tendency there might be in the North of Scotland to argue that all the units should be used in the north, and none exported to the south. It was only by selling a portion to the south, he explained, that the board could meet the cost of providing electricity to isolated areas where the provision was otherwise quite uneconomic.
• archive.scotsman.com