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For the UK Ordnance Survey National Grid for mapping co-ordinates in Great Britain, see Ordnance Survey National Grid. The National Grid is the high-voltage electric power transmission network in Great Britain, connecting power stations and major substations and ensuring that electricity generated anywhere in England, Scotland and Wales can be used to satisfy demand elsewhere. There are also undersea interconnections to northern France (HVDC Cross-Channel), Northern Ireland (HVDC Moyle), the Isle of Man (Isle of Man to England Interconnector) and the Netherlands (BritNed). On the breakup of the Central Electricity Generating Board in 1990, the ownership and operation of the National Grid in England and Wales passed to National Grid Company plc, later to become National Grid Transco and now National Grid plc. In Scotland the grid is owned by Scottish Power and Scottish and Southern Energy. 英国地形测量局的国家测绘大不列颠协调电网，全国地形测量局国家电网。国家电网，苏格兰和威尔士在英国的高压电力传输网络，发电站和主要变电站连接，并确保在英国的任何地方，产生的电力可以使用，以满足需求。也有海底互连法国北部（高压直流输电跨渠道），北爱尔兰（高压直流输电莫伊尔），马恩岛（曼英格兰联网岛）和荷兰（BritNed）。在中央发电局于1990年解体后，在英格兰和威尔士的国家电网的所有权和经营传递给国家电网公司的PLC，后来成为国家电网输电和现在的国家电网PLC。在苏格兰，苏格兰电力和苏格兰和南部能源电网是国有的。 History at the end of the 19th century, Nikola Tesla established the principles of three-phase high-voltage electrical power distribution while he was working for Westinghouse in the United States. The first to use this system in the United Kingdom was Charles Merz, of the Merz McLellan consulting partnership, at his Neptune Bank Power Station near Newcastle upon Tyne. This opened in 1901,[1] and by 1912 had developed into the largest integrated power system in Europe.[2] The rest of the country, however, continued to use a patchwork of small supply networks. In 1925, the British government asked Lord Weir, a Glaswegian industrialist, to solve the problem of Britains inefficient and fragmented electricity supply industry. Weir consulted Merz, and the result was the Electricity (Supply) Act 1926, which recommended that a na