National Grid operates the UK's national electricity and gas grids, as well as four of the country's eight regional gas distribution networks.

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Government-supported initiatives such as UK NetYear and the planned National Grid for Learning have focused on the process of connecting schools to the Internet and providing online materials, rather than on setting lower-rate or free access.

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She has an app on her iPad which shows how much power is generated for the national grid from the UK's renewables.

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The undersea connection to the national grid was funded by the UK Government and European Union.

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It is believed to be the first of its kind in the UK to feed biogas directly into the national gas grid.

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In light of the calls by the National Farmers Union to set up grid to ferry water supplies from Wales to parts of the UK, Mr George called for the minister's views on the idea of a national water grid.

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Other questions were on the establishment of a national water grid, eliminating Japanese knotweed from the UK and the language trends survey 2011.

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