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National Grid

  • National Grid posts £4bn profit amid soaring electricity and gas prices

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    National Grid announced operating profit was up 11 per cent to £4bn as the firm continues to invest in its energy transition.

  • National Grid to pay £200m to energy users from subsea cable trading

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    National Grid has revealed it will share some of the excess cash it has made with struggling households amid the cost of living crisis.

  • National Grid partly nationalised in energy shake up

    NATIONALISED GRID

    The National Grid will no longer be responsible for keeping the country's electricity and gas flowing as part of a government shake-up.

  • National Grid warns of price spikes but says British lights won’t go off this winter

    October 7, 2021

    The National Grid has warned of increased risks of power shortages and “significant price spikes” this winter. The country would face its highest risk of power shortages in five years, the Grid said in a forecast. However, the company said it was confident that there would be “enough capacity available to keep Britain’s lights on.”  [...]

  • National Grid’s £7.8bn power deal gets green light from competition watchdog

    September 1, 2021

    The UK’s competition watchdog has today given the green light to National Grid’s whopping £7.8bn deal to buy Western Power Distribution (WPD). Based on the information currently available, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it had decided not to refer the merger to a phase 2 investigation. Back in March National Grid announced that [...]

  • Construction of North Sea Link cable completed ahead of October power-up

    June 15, 2021

    Construction work on the world’s longest subsea electric cable has now been completed, the National Grid announced today. The final segment of the 450 mile-long North Sea Link (NSL), which connects Blyth in Northumberland to the Norwegian village of Kvilldal, has now been laid. When it begins operating on 1 October, the interconnector will provide enough power [...]

  • National Grid cuts Covid-19 losses with ‘solid’ year

    May 20, 2021

    National Grid this morning said it had limited the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic to £296m, well ahead of the £400m hit it had previously predicted. The FTSE 100 firm this morning revealed that its underlying pre-tax profit had slipped just three per cent over the full year, falling from £2.5bn to £2.4bn. The [...]

  • ‘Electric or bust’ for National Grid as it snaps up Western Power Distribution for £8bn

    March 18, 2021

    National Grid shocked the system this morning when it announced it would buy Western Power Distribution (WPD), the holding company of Britain’s largest electricity distribution business, from US-based company PPL in a £7.8bn deal. Moreover, National Grid agreed to sell The Narragansett Electric Company (NECO) to PPL Energy Holdings, also a subsidiary of PPL, for an [...]

  • National Grid profit slides as Covid costs increase

    November 12, 2020

    Energy firm National Grid posted a 12 per cent decline in profit for the first half as the coronavirus pandemic increased the network owner’s costs. Underlying profit fell from £1.3bn to £1.15bn in the six month period, which the FTSE 100 company said was down to rising bad debt provisions and a shortfall in revenue. [...]

  • National Grid faces breakup amid PM’s green push

    November 8, 2020

    Boris Johnson’s push to reshape the energy industry in order to achieve the net zero target could reportedly see the break up of the National Grid.  The regulator Ofgem’s recent review into National Grid will soon draw to a close and officials are exploring moves to breakup its current structure, according to the Sunday Telegraph.  [...]

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