25 January 2017
National Grid plc ("National Grid")
Transaction in Own Shares
National Grid announces that at 16:52:00 on 25 January 2017 it has purchased 600,000 of its Ordinary shares of 1117/43p each on the London Stock Exchange from Barclays Capital Securities Limited ("Barclays") at a price of 922.0000p per share as part of its buy-back programme announced on 24 November 2016. National Grid intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury.
Following the purchase of these shares, National Grid holds 189,025,353 of its Ordinary shares in treasury and has 3,753,958,094 Ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 details of the purchase of its own Ordinary shares by National Grid from Barclays are set out below:
Time of transaction |
Price per share (p) |
Quantity of shares purchased |
16:52:00 |
922.0000 |
600,000 |
This announcement will also be available on National Grid's website http://investors.nationalgrid.com/rns.aspx.
Enquiries to:
C James, Company Secretarial Assistant, (0207 004 3209).