Talk:National Grid plc/Archives/2012

National Grid USA and National Grid plc Merge proposal
Proposed merge:
 * Support. I'm proposing this merge because both articles focus on the business side of the company, and both articles features considerable overlapping information about the American subsidaries extensive gas and electric business and holdings. — Cg-realms (talk • contribs) 18:35, 29 May 2008 (EDT)


 * Support. I agree it seems fair to merge these relatively brief stubs under the parent company article. National Grid plc is a big co. in terms of no. of employees, revenue, profitability, and importance to economic infrastructure.  It would be good to see the article expanded.  To be fair to the US co. the History section of the article needs to be expanded as it is currently UK centric.  --Sunbite (talk) 09:34, 31 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Support. I agree there is currently too much overlap. Dormskirk (talk) 21:52, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Well, two months went by without any opposition, so I went ahead and merged them. —Cg-realms (talk • contribs) 02:35, 31 July 2008 (EDT)

National Grid and National Grid plc Merge proposal
Proposed merge:
 * Oppose. The National Grid cover the whole of GB, while National Grid plc only own the grid in England and Wales, therefore we need separate articles, for the same reason that ITV and ITV plc are not the same thing. Maccoinnich 19:21, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. National Grid relates to the actual electricity transmission infrastructure, whereas National Grid plc relates to the company that currently operates the Grid. National Grid plc also has many other operations not realted to electricity transmission. AdamCarden 22:32, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Opose. One is about the national infrastucture, the other is about the comapny that owns it. Tompw 13:38, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose As National Grid PLC deals with more than the National Grid. Also as a correction to a previous entry, National Grid PLC operates the Entire National Grid (including the Scottish part. It just doesn't own the Scottish part)

Well no-one supported the merge, even the person who slapped the labels on, so I'm going to remove them. Maccoinnich 14:58, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 17:24, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Removed Australia
I've removed the section on Australia from the Organisation section, since National Grid plc no longer owns the Australian operation. It previously read:

Australia * National Grid Australia Formerly owned and operated the Basslink high-voltage direct current transmission link between the Australian mainland and Tasmania - In July 2007 this was sold for £485m to CitySpring Infrastructure Management Pte Ltd.

By all means include this in the History section, but it isn't part of the Organisation now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bhuna71 (talk • contribs) 23:33, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Green House Gas Reduction Pledge
While merging Talk:National Grid USA into this article, everything spliced together well except the following info which was available on the US article but not the main article:
 * In late 2007, National Grid announced plans to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 60% below 1990 levels by 2050 as part of its efforts to fight global warming.

Unfortunately, the GreenBiz site requires registration so I can't see what the article actually says. As written for the US article, the fact is ambiguous as to whether the 60 percent emissions cut was a pledge of the entire National Grid plc or the American subsideary specifically. If anyone can find out the specifics and integrate it into the article where appropriate, that'd be great. —Cg-realms (talk • contribs) 03:09, 31 July 2008 (EDT)

NYSE
National Grid plc also trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:NGG). Psalm 119:105 (talk) 21:39, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks, now added to article.Rangoon11 (talk) 21:53, 5 July 2011 (UTC)