National Grid Should Be Broken Up, MPs Say

A committee of MPs has called for National Grid, the private company which owns and operates the country's gas and electricity networks, to be broken up. The Energy and Climate Change Committee said there was growing evidence of "conflicts of interest" and the FTSE 100 firm's operation of the UK's power system should be handed to an independent body instead. It was particularly concerned that National Grid owned stakes in electricity cable links to Europe while also managing the country's electr