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National Grid plc is a British multinational electricity and gas utility company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Its principal activities are in the United Kingdom and Northeastern United States.
National Grid has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It had a market capitalisation of approximately £31.4 billion on 4 August 2014, the 20th-largest of any company with a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange. It has a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
Before 1990, both the generation and transmission activities in England and Wales were under the responsibility of Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB). The present electricity market in the UK was built upon the breakup of the CEGB into four separate companies in the 1990s. Its generation (or upstream) activities were transferred to three generating companies—PowerGen, National Power, and Nuclear Electric (later British Energy, eventually EDF Energy)—and its transmission (or downstream) activities to the National Grid Company.
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Robert Llewellyn (born 10 March 1956, in Northampton, Northamptonshire) is an English actor, comedian and writer best known as the mechanoid Kryten in the hit TV sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf and as a presenter of the TV engineering gameshow Scrapheap Challenge. He is a science and technology enthusiast, a promoter of renewable technologies and electric cars and an atheist and skeptic who frequently gives talks at science and technology events. He is also active online.
Llewellyn's first foray into the world of show business started out as a hobby, organising a few amateur cabaret evenings in a riverside warehouse overlooking Tower Bridge in London. The shows were a great success and he eventually helped form an alternative comedy theatre group called the Joeys. Within six months he had stopped working as a shoemaker and started performing professionally with the group alongside Bernie Evans, Nigel Ordish and Graham Allum. The group toured Britain and France in the early 1980s with an initial idea of exploring sexual politics between men. Llewellyn wrote much of the material, and also began writing novels. The group split in 1985, having toured for years and done thousands of shows.
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Robert Llewellyn visits the National Grid to find out what it's all about! LIKE Fully Charged on Facebook @ http://www.fb.me/FullyChargedShow Fully Charged Podcast on iTunes @ http://bit.ly/fullchargediTunes The National Grid is a high-voltage electric power transmission network, connecting power stations and 340+ substations ensuring supply and demand is in the balance. Nigel Williams speaks to Robert Llewellyn about how the National Grid works in Great Britain, and what challenges it faces with the rapidly changing world. Fully Charged is an online show hosted by Robert Llewellyn (Red Dwarf, Scrapheap Challenge, Carpool), sponsored by British Gas: Looking After Your World. During this series, Robert will discuss why we need to change how we think about energy consumption now. He will b...
Want to know more about these tunnels? Go watch Geoff Marshall's video over at Londonist! https://youtu.be/qSzxTgDq3hM -- and thanks to the National Grid for letting me film down in the London Power Tunnels: this isn't a sponsored video, although they did go out of their way to show Geoff and me around! http://londonpowertunnels.co.uk - http://nationalgrid.com Back in the 1920s, electricity was generated by hundreds of small companies in towns and cities across the country. They were all different and mostly incompatible: London alone had 24 voltages and 10 frequencies. How did we get from there to the billion-pound tunnel projects of today? I'm at http://tomscott.com/ on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tomscott on Facebook at http://facebook.com/tomscott and on Instagram at tomscottgo
Extract from 'Britain from above' explaining how the National Grid responds to 'TV pickups'
The National Grid has been busy building 32km of new tunnels and infrastructure under London carrying high voltage power cables. We went and had a look along with the marvellous Tom Scott - who's also made a video over at https://www.youtube.com/user/enyay and has many more delightfully insightful, geeky and interesting videos over on his channel - go have a look!
Dr. Tom Mather, from the University of Rhode Island, talks about the most dangerous types of ticks.
National Grid PLC (LON:NG.) could add another 20% in coming weeks according to chartist Zak Mir, who has hailed the “good set-up” of the company. Mir tells the Tip TV Proactive Investors Bulletin Board that the gas and electricity firm wasa ‘technical buy’ before the sale of its UK gas distribution business made it a ‘fundamental buy’. The technical analyst now expects the stock to re-visit the £10.70 no seen since October. “We’re looking for a break in the 50-day moving average at £9.59 to take us back towards the 200-day line at £10.70,” he explains.
A physics revision video about the national grid.
Countryfile pay a visit to the National Grid Over Head Lines team at Eakring Training Centre to take a look at the current lattice towers and the T-Pylons that are starting to replace them.
Robert Llewellyn visits the National Grid to find out what it's all about! LIKE Fully Charged on Facebook @ http://www.fb.me/FullyChargedShow Fully Charged Podcast on iTunes @ http://bit.ly/fullchargediTunes The National Grid is a high-voltage electric power transmission network, connecting power stations and 340+ substations ensuring supply and demand is in the balance. Nigel Williams speaks to Robert Llewellyn about how the National Grid works in Great Britain, and what challenges it faces with the rapidly changing world. Fully Charged is an online show hosted by Robert Llewellyn (Red Dwarf, Scrapheap Challenge, Carpool), sponsored by British Gas: Looking After Your World. During this series, Robert will discuss why we need to change how we think about energy consumption now. He will b...
Want to know more about these tunnels? Go watch Geoff Marshall's video over at Londonist! https://youtu.be/qSzxTgDq3hM -- and thanks to the National Grid for letting me film down in the London Power Tunnels: this isn't a sponsored video, although they did go out of their way to show Geoff and me around! http://londonpowertunnels.co.uk - http://nationalgrid.com Back in the 1920s, electricity was generated by hundreds of small companies in towns and cities across the country. They were all different and mostly incompatible: London alone had 24 voltages and 10 frequencies. How did we get from there to the billion-pound tunnel projects of today? I'm at http://tomscott.com/ on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tomscott on Facebook at http://facebook.com/tomscott and on Instagram at tomscottgo
Extract from 'Britain from above' explaining how the National Grid responds to 'TV pickups'
The National Grid has been busy building 32km of new tunnels and infrastructure under London carrying high voltage power cables. We went and had a look along with the marvellous Tom Scott - who's also made a video over at https://www.youtube.com/user/enyay and has many more delightfully insightful, geeky and interesting videos over on his channel - go have a look!
Dr. Tom Mather, from the University of Rhode Island, talks about the most dangerous types of ticks.
National Grid PLC (LON:NG.) could add another 20% in coming weeks according to chartist Zak Mir, who has hailed the “good set-up” of the company. Mir tells the Tip TV Proactive Investors Bulletin Board that the gas and electricity firm wasa ‘technical buy’ before the sale of its UK gas distribution business made it a ‘fundamental buy’. The technical analyst now expects the stock to re-visit the £10.70 no seen since October. “We’re looking for a break in the 50-day moving average at £9.59 to take us back towards the 200-day line at £10.70,” he explains.
A physics revision video about the national grid.
Countryfile pay a visit to the National Grid Over Head Lines team at Eakring Training Centre to take a look at the current lattice towers and the T-Pylons that are starting to replace them.
Speakers Sam Laidlaw, CEO, Centrica, Steve Holliday, CEO, National Grid PLC, Keith Howells, Chairman, Mott MacDonald, and Humphrey Cadoux-Hudson, Managing Director, Nuclear New Build, EDF Energy at the British Business Embassy on 6 August 2012
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Corporate America is more or less known for distrust, employee mistreatment, and lack of ethics, to say the least. What if two men could create harmony between management and union workers as they generate profitability? Such was the case with the most unlikely duo, Bob Catell a luminary in the energy industry and Kenny Moore, a former Catholic Monk who tell their story of success in the best-selling book, The CEO and The Monk. It is the story of KeySpan, the nations fifth largest energy giant and a profitable, Fortune 500 company and their simple belief in opting to "do the right thing." Before it was bought out by NationalGrid in February 2006, KeySpan received a 100% rating on the Corporate Equality Index released by the Human Rights Campaign starting in 2004, the third year of the repo...
Power to the People - 01 March 2011 Steve Holliday FREng, Chief Executive of National Grid The UK is about to embark on a huge process of change in the way it produces, transports and uses energy. Old power stations are closing, new nuclear and renewable generation is arriving, and millions of electric cars are on their way as we strive to cut carbon emissions. Most of the new power generation will be in remote locations, often on the coast. Creating new connections to get that electricity to people's homes and businesses will cost billions of pounds; but without it, we won't reach that sustainable future. National Grid owns and operates the high voltage electricity transmission system in England and Wales and operates the network across the UK. It also owns and operates the UK's gas tr...