TOP 10 – UTILITY COMPANIES IN THE UK

FOUNDED: 1990 BASED IN: LONDON, ENGLAND CEO: ZOË YUJNOVICH

CONSUMER BASE: SERVES ALL BRITISH ELECTRICITY CONSUMERS AS SYSTEM OPERATOR

The UK’ s National Grid is often cited as the world’ s first truly integrated nationwide power system. It became fully operational in 1935, but was only officially founded in 1990, after the UK’ s electricity industry was privatised. The National Grid’ s role has grown exponentially more complex since renewables were introduced into the British energy mix, with the US $ 76.4bn‘ Great Grid Upgrade’ set to future-proof the nation’ s utilities for years to come. Zoë Yujnovich, CEO, National Grid

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