How do gas companies know w when you’ve changed provider?
So I’m moving house and am switching provider for pretty much all of my utilities etc. So how do they, my new provider, start supplying my house the gas instead of my previous provider. I’m assuming they use the same pipe but it’ll contain the whole areas gas and smaller pipes would branch off up streets and eventually into houses wouldn’t they? How do they direct only British Gas gas into my house instead of Scottish Power gas?
I’m stoned so please excuse me if this makes zero sense
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They don’t.
Your area will have one distributor (called a Gas Distribution Network) who will source their gas from National Gas (you can google “Gas Distribution Network” if you’re interested to see who your distributor is). These are the people actually in charge of the pipes/getting the gas to you.
Your supplier can tell how much gas you have used by reading your meter, and they pay the distribution network x amount for the gas you have used.
It’s all the same gas, there aren’t separate pipes for Scottish Power/British Gas etc. All UK gas is piped through the Gas Distribution Networks, which themselves get it from National Gas.
This is also why if you ever have a problem, there’s a very high chance that the engineer who shows up won’t work for your supplier, they will work for whoever is in charge of the network in your area.
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