[2] The aim of the joint authorities was to produce electricity more economically by inter-connecting power stations and transmission systems on a regional basis.
The Joint Authority would acquire all the power stations in the area and build large, efficient and economic super-stations.
[2] JEAs were set up on a voluntary basis, and they were largely supported by local authority electricity undertakings.
[6] The Power company developed several hydro-power stations and extended transmission lines to towns and industrial areas.
The district covered 1,841 square miles including the whole of the counties of London and Middlesex, and parts of Hertfordshire, Essex, Kent, Surrey, Buckinghamshire, and Berkshire.
[9] The JEA included representatives of Midland Electricity Corporation; Wolverhampton, Walsall, West Bromwich, Cannock and Shrewsbury councils; colliery owners; railway companies; and electricity industry workers.
[11] It covered an area of 800 square miles of Staffordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire including Stoke-on-Trent.
The joint electricity authority built the 120 MW Meaford A power station first commissioned in 1947.
[1] With nationalisation effective from 1 April 1948 the generating and transmission assets of the JEAs were transferred to the British Electricity Authority.