{"id":7056,"date":"2026-11-11T04:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T04:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=7056"},"modified":"2026-11-08T20:49:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T20:49:39","slug":"national-grid-debt-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=7056","title":{"rendered":"National Grid: Debt Position"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There was an article about the current debt of National Grid<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2026\/11\/08\/national-grids-near-50bn-debt-pile-set-to-push-up-bills\/\">National Grid\u2019s near-\u00a350bn debt pile set to push up energy bills<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One can see the figures from the National Grid&#8217;s financial reports:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgrid.com\/document\/601726\/download\">National Grid Q2 6K 2026\/27<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-1-1024x270.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-1-1024x270.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-1-300x79.png 300w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-1-768x203.png 768w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-1-624x165.png 624w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-1.png 1064w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Courtesy of National Grid PLC<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can see the current debt is a <strong>total of \u00a348.599 Billion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can see below the interest (financing costs) of the debt:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-4-1024x513.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7060\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-4-1024x513.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-4-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-4-768x385.png 768w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-4-624x313.png 624w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-4.png 1098w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Courtesy of National Grid PLC<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interests costs are at \u00a31030 million. (<strong>\u00a31.03 Billion<\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So on  [<strong>\u00a31.03 Billion \/\u00a348.599 Billion<\/strong>] gives a rough interest rate of <strong>2.1211%<\/strong> which is a very low interest rate on a total debt of \u00a348.599 billion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an article about the current debt of National Grid National Grid\u2019s near-\u00a350bn debt pile set to push up energy bills One can see the figures from the National Grid&#8217;s financial reports:- National Grid Q2 6K 2026\/27 Courtesy of National Grid PLC We can see the current debt is a total of \u00a348.599 Billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7061,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056\/revisions\/7061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}