Monday, 28 March 2022 3:40 pmThis morning National Grid announced it is selling a 60pc stake in its transmission and metering business to a consortium led by Australian infrastructure house Macquarie for £9.6 billion including debt.
Thursday, 18 March 2021 9:42 amThere were a couple of chunky deals anounced this morning in the UK, including National Grid's £14 billion takeover of Western Power from America's PPL Corporation.
Thursday, 08 December 2016 8:15 amSo, coming up with a silly name to differentiate your consortium from the other Chinese bidders clearly does work. This morning it was announced the mega consortium, which called itself (in secret) the "Saxon Infrastructure Distribution Company", has won the National Grid gas distribution auction.
Whilst I could see how some consortium members could easily be associated with the Saxons (Allianz?) other members of the consortium are more likely to be associated with tribes from the east...
Sunday, 30 October 2016 1:22 pmThese people also revealed to little old Betaville that the consortium's bidding vehicle is called - wait for it - the "Saxon Infrastructure Distribution Company".
