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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Your house has a flow meter on the pipe that feeds gas into your home. When you switch companies the only meaningful change to you is who reads the meter. You are still getting the same gas from the same source.
Utility companies that share infrastructure have deals worked out between each other to balance out the money without involving you. Otherwise you’d need a lot of very complex switching or duplicated piping. Its far easier to just have one system and move money around.
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