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.



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