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NATIONAL GRID

Specialty Definition: NATIONAL GRID

DomainDefinition

Mining

Gr. Brit. A system of rectangular coordinates used by the Ordnance Survey and based upon the Transverse Mercator Projection (which is also known asthe Gauss Conformal Projection). (references)

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Specialty Definition: National Grid

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

This article is about the electricity company. For the grid reference system, see national grid.

National Grid Company plc (NGC) was established on 31 March 1990 as the owner and operator of the high voltage transmission system in England and Wales. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of National Grid Transco, which is listed on the stock exchange and is one of the UK's FTSE 100 companies.

Prior to March 1990, the vast majority of electricity supplied in England and Wales was generated by the CEGB (Central Electricity Generating Board), which also owned and operated the electric power transmission system and the interconnectors with Scotland and France. The great majority of the output of the CEGB was purchased by the 12 area electricity boards, each of which distributed and sold it to customers.

On 31 March 1990, the electricity industry was restructured and then privatised under the terms of the Electricity Act 1989. The National Grid Company plc assumed ownership and control of the transmission system and joint ownership of the interconnectors with Scotland and France, together with the two hydroelectric pumped storage stations in North Wales, but these stations were subsequently sold off.

The CEGB's remaining non-nuclear generating stations were transferred to National Power and PowerGen, while its nuclear generating stations were transferred to Nuclear Electric. Subsequently, the new PWR (Pressurised Water Reactor) and AGR (Advanced Gas Reactor) nuclear power stations of Nuclear Electric and Scottish Nuclear were combined and a new company called British Energy created. The old magnox nuclear power stations were left in government ownership as Magnox Electric and then acquired by BNFL (British Nuclear Fuels Limited).

The property, rights and liabilities of the 12 area electricity boards, including the local electricity distribution systems, were transferred to the 12 Regional Electricity Companies (RECs), which are still in existence today although under different ownership. The Regional Electricity Companies were the main shareholders in National Grid until the company was floated on the stock exchange in December 1995.

The electricity market in the UK was established as a result of the electricity reforms, and the NGC became the platform for competition, allowing competing generators to connect to the grid and providing an independent system operating service to the market.The national grid is a system of grid references used by the Ordnance Survey in their maps of the Great Britain. First, the area is divided into a number of squares, 10km by 10km.

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HQHRHSHTHUJQJR
HVHWHXHYHZJVJW

NANBNCNDNEOAOB
NFNGNHNJNKOFOG
NLNMNNNONPOLOM
NQNRNSNTNUOQOR
NVNWNXNYNZOVOW

SASBSCSDSETATB
SFSGSHSJSKTFTG
SLSMSNSOSPTLTM
SQSRSSSTSUTQTR
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Within each square, eastings and northings are given as a code. For example, HL35 means 'square HL, 3 km east, 5 km north'. Additional precision is specified by longer numbers - SS390465 means 'square SS, 3900 metres east, 4650 meters north'.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "National Grid."

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Crosswords: NATIONAL GRID

Specialty definitions using "NATIONAL GRID": national grid coordinates. (references)

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Commercial Usage: NATIONAL GRID

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  • The National Grid Group P.L.C.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

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Non-Fiction Usage: NATIONAL GRID

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Business

All of the oil in National Grid transformers containing PCB levels greater than 50 mg/kg (PPM) has now been treated. (references)

The transmission of electricity is controlled by the National Grid Company (NGC) which is responsible for calling up generation plants to meet demand. (references)

Spain's major power generators, its electricity distribution companies, and the owner of the national grid, Red Electrica Espaola (REE), are increasingly concerned about their capacity to absorb the additional inputs of added wind farms. (references)

Economic History

Pakistan

The 325-MW Chashma Nuclear Power Plant has now been connected to the national grid. (references)

Ukraine

Ukraine's seven power generating companies supply electricity to the national grid. (references)

Yemen

However, government resources are inadequate to guarantee power purchase contracts to supply the national grid. (references)

Political Economy

BANGLADESH

As of fall 2001, IPPs were generating 35 percent of all the electricity to the national grid. (references)

COSTA RICA

Exceptions include power generation for sale to the national grid, where 35 percent Costa Rican equity is required, and radio and television broadcasting, where Costa Rican majority ownership is required. (references)

Costa Rica

Legislation proposed by the executive branch to permit a limited opening of the telecommunications and electricity sector led to another Supreme Court ruling of unconstitutionality, widespread demonstrations, and withdrawal of the bill in the first half of 2000. Private electricity generators with contracts to supply the national grid faced legislative and regulatory initiatives threatening their viability during 2000. Another Supreme Court ruling of unconstitutionality in 2000 determined that the government had incorrectly granted an offshore oil exploration contract to a U.S. company because there had been inadequate consultations with local indigenous communities. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: NATIONAL GRID

CountryName
United Kingdom

The National Grid Group P.L.C.

 (more examples...)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NATIONAL GRID

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

national grid

77

national grid for learning

4

the national grid group

2
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Modern Translation: NATIONAL GRID

Language Translations for "NATIONAL GRID"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏الشبكة القومية. (various references)

   

French

  

réseau national. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ationalnay idgray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: NATIONAL GRID

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-g-i-i-l-n-n-o-r-t"

-2 letters: indagation.

-3 letters: antinodal, arointing, gladiator, gradation, granitoid, indagator, lariating, ordaining, radiating, radiation, rationing, tailoring, trainload, trindling.

-4 letters: adnation, adorning, agnation, antiarin, antidora, dartling, diagonal, dilating, dilation, donating, draining, gonadial, gonidial, ignitron, ignorant, intaglio, iodating, largando, ligation, national, nonrigid, nontidal, notarial, original, radioing, rational, rigatoni, ringtail, trailing, training, trigonal, trinodal.

-5 letters: adoring, agatoid, airting, alation.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-g-i-i-l-n-n-o-r-t"
 

+4 letters: intergradational, traditionalizing.

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Alternative Orthography: NATIONAL GRID


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 41 54 49 4F 4E 41 4C      47 52 49 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 01000001 01001100 00100000 01000111 01010010 01001001 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78 &#65 &#76 &#32 &#71 &#82 &#73 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E 0041 004C      0047 0052 0049 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4835544349483546241524338

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Names: Company Usage
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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