Northern Powergrid

Northern Powergrid Holdings Company

Type	Private
Industry	Energy
Founded	1996
Headquarters	Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Employees	2,534
Parent	MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company
Website	www.northernpowergrid.com

Northern Powergrid Holdings Company (formally CE Electric UK Funding Company) is an electrical distribution company based in Newcastle Upon Tyne in England. It is the owner of Northern Powergrid (Northeast) Limited (formally Northern Electric Distribution Limited (NEDL)) and Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire) plc (formally Yorkshire Electricity Distribution plc (YEDL)) which are the Distribution Network Operators for the North East England and Yorkshire regions.

History

The company was created after the takeover of Northern Electric by CalEnergy in 1996.^[1] The company disposed of the supply business of Northern Electric to Innogy in 2001 in exchange for the distribution business of Yorkshire Electricity.^[2]

Network

Northern Powergrid is the electricity distribution business for North East England, Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire. The company is responsible for delivering power to the 3.8 million electricity domestic and business customers in this area.

Northern Powergrid’s network consists of more than 65,000 substations, 29,000 kilometres of overhead line and 62,000 kilometres of underground cable, covering an area of more than 25,000 square kilometres.^{[citation needed]}

Ownership and structure

Northern Powergrid is a wholly owned subsidiary of MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company.

On 1 November 2011 Northern Powergrid was rebranded from CE Electric UK. The new name is intended to give a better customer representation of the business, its location and operations. ^[3]

References

1. ^ Northern Electric sparks £650m US bid The Independent, 29 October 1996
2. ^ Innogy, Northern in retail swap Power Engineering International, September 2001
3. ^ http://www.northernpowergrid.com/news/we_have_a_new_name.cfm

External links

• Northern Powergrid