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

The family had another home in the town of Bole, which at the time was not on the national grid.

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The body was originally owned by National Grid, a private company, but transferred to government ownership last month.

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All energy schemes which need a connection to the National Grid are currently in a single queue which operates on a "first-come-first-served" basis.

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National Grid said there was a fault on its high voltage overhead network, but that power had been restored to all properties by 20:30.

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The chief executive of the National Grid said in March that data centre power use in the UK would increase six-fold in the next decade.

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