National Grid launches £7bn rights offer to help fund grid upgrades

Cecilia Keating
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National Grid launches £7bn rights offer to help fund grid upgrades

Fund raise from existing shareholders aims to help catalyse broader £32bn green grid investment programme

National Grid has this morning launched a £7bn capital raise to fund a major programme of electricity network upgrades that can prepare the electricity grid for the accelerating roll out of renewables...

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