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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That’s not how it works. There’s a distributor who actually provides gas to your home (and everyone else’s in your area), and they use one set of pipes. At the end of the pipe that goes into your house is a gas meter that tracks how much gas you use.
The distributor gets gas from all sorts of suppliers, and when you choose a supplier, then the distributor adds your usage to all the other customers who purchase from that supplier as well, and the distributor obtains that amount of gas (more or less) from that supplier. And they do the same with all the other suppliers who provide gas to the distributor for distribution to the end users.
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