Expansion at Grain LNG helped lift profits at parent National Grid in the third quarter.
The UK import terminal logged £45 million ($70.4 million) in quarterly operating profits, up 61% on the £28 million in the same period of 2010.
The terminal
business spent just £9 million on capital investments, down 73% from the £33 million shelled out in the third quarter of last year.
Grain