This new type of enterprise operated at a larger scale at county and regional level, rather than the local authority areas of earlier electricity undertakings.
[1] Specifically the 1901 Act authorised the company to erect power stations at Colwick near Nottingham; Warsop and Trowell near Ilkeston; and Newbold and Dunston near Chesterfield.
[2] This enabled the company to apply for provisional orders to provide an electricity supply in specified areas.
The company built a power station at Ilkeston and began supplying electricity in July 1904.
This company was founded in 1912 by the engineer George Balfour to acquire the assets and operating rights of electricity undertakings.
[1] In 1922 the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Company acquired the Spondon power station from British Celanese.
The circuit comprised Hams Hill, Coventry, Leicester, Nottingham, Burton-on-Trent and Spondon.
[Total 124 MW] The electricity undertakings supplied by the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Company in 1937 are shown on the table.