Formed as the North Eastern Electricity Board (NEEB) in 1948 as part of the nationalisation of the electricity industry by the
Electricity Act 1947, it was privatised in 1990 and renamed as
Northern Electric.
Nationalised industry The NEEB was responsible for the purchase of electricity from the electricity generator (the
Central Electricity Generating Board from 1958) and its distribution and sale of electricity to customers. The key people on the Board were: Chairman G.M. Green (1964, 1967), Deputy Chairman E. Bates (1964, 1967), Full time member J. F. Skipsey (1964). The total number of customers supplied by the Board was: The amount of electricity, in GWh, sold by North Eastern Electricity Board over its operational life was: { "version": 2, "width": 600, "height": 200, "data": [ { "name": "table", "values": [ { "x": 1949, "y": 2593 }, { "x": 1956, "y": 3923 }, { "x": 1961, "y": 5774 }, { "x": 1966, "y": 8225 }, { "x": 1967, "y": 8491 }, { "x": 1968, "y": 8859 }, { "x": 1969, "y": 9686 }, { "x": 1970, "y": 10405 }, { "x": 1971, "y": 10739 }, { "x": 1972, "y": 11296 }, { "x": 1976, "y": 11834 }, { "x": 1978, "y": 12585 }, { "x": 1979, "y": 13310 }, { "x": 1980, "y": 13682 }, { "x": 1981, "y": 12894 }, { "x": 1982, "y": 13272 }, { "x": 1987, "y": 13902 }, { "x": 1988, "y": 14546 }, { "x": 1989, "y": 14784 } ] } ], "scales": [ { "name": "x", "type": "ordinal", "range": "width", "zero": false, "domain": { "data": "table", "field": "x" } }, { "name": "y", "type": "linear", "range": "height", "nice": true, "domain": { "data": "table", "field": "y" } } ], "axes": [ { "type": "x", "scale": "x" }, { "type": "y", "scale": "y" } ], "marks": [ { "type": "rect", "from": { "data": "table" }, "properties": { "enter": { "x": { "scale": "x", "field": "x" }, "y": { "scale": "y", "field": "y" }, "y2": { "scale": "y", "value": 0 }, "fill": { "value": "steelblue" }, "width": { "scale": "x", "band": "true", "offset": -1 } } } } ] }
Existing electricity suppliers taken over at nationalisation The
Electricity (Allocation of Undertakings to Area Boards) Order 1948 (
SI 1948/484) transferred the electricity business of the following local authorities and private companies to the new board effective 31 March 1948.
Local authorities • Amble Urban District Council • Crook and Willington Urban District Council • Darlington Corporation • Eston Urban District Council • Guisborough Urban District Council • Harrogate Corporation • Middlesbrough Corporation • Newcastle-upon-Tyne Corporation • Redcar Corporation • Richmond (Yorks) Corporation • Scarborough Corporation • Seaham Urban District Council • Skelton and Brotton Urban District Council • South Shields Corporation • Stanley Urban District Council • Stockton-on-Tees Corporation • Sunderland Corporation • Tynemouth Corporation • West Hartlepool Corporation • Whitby Urban District Council • York Corporation
Private companies • Askrigg and Reeth Electric Supply Company • Hawes Electric Lighting Company •
Newcastle and District Electric Lighting Company •
North Eastern Electric Supply Company ==Fleet vehicles==