national grid

noun

1. a network of high-voltage power lines connecting major power stations

2. a grid of metric coordinates used by the Ordnance Survey in Britain and Ireland, and in New Zealand by the New Zealand Lands and Survey Department, and printed on their maps

Example Sentences

In Wales, National Grid said hundreds of properties in Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire were without power.

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National grid operator EirGrid projects that data centres could account for 30 percent of demand by 2030 as the growth of artificial intelligence technology accelerates.

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The storm caused travel disruption on Friday evening and left hundreds of homes without power, including 330 in Cardiff, 285 in Tregaron, 68 near St Clears, and 41 in Camarthen, according to the National Grid.

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However, the company faces criticism about the scale of the 11 major transmission projects it has under way - similar to the difficulties in winning community support for grid connections in England and Wales, where National Grid plc runs the network, and in the south of Scotland, where the monopoly provider of high-voltage cabling is Scottish Power.

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The National Grid is investing in quantum research to see if it can help with what's known as "load shedding" - how to maximise the output of thousands of generators from various energy sources as demand rises and falls in real time, preventing blackouts.

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