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National Grid

Annual Report and Accounts 2006/07

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What we do

Map of US electricity transmission system

Key facts

8,500 miles of overhead line

89 miles of underground cable

501 electricity substations

We own and operate an electricity transmission network spanning upstate New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Vermont. Our US electricity transmission facilities operate at voltages ranging from 69 kV to 345 kV.

We are the largest electricity transmission service provider in the northeastern US by reference to the length of these high-voltage transmission lines.