We’re laborious at work constructing a world run fully on inexperienced electrical energy, and as we transfer nearer to that purpose, extra persons are asking us to disconnect their gasoline provide. So we thought we’d put collectively a weblog explaining how we might help take away your gasoline meter and cap your provide safely.
Need us to disconnect your gasoline?
Simply get in contact with our pleasant workforce about it. They’ll be capable of share extra data on find out how to take away your meter and cap your gasoline provide.
Transferring away from gasoline
As folks transfer away from burning gasoline to warmth their properties and their water – ‘electrifying’ these processes as a substitute – we anticipate (and encourage) extra prospects to begin disconnecting their gasoline provides.
In the mean time although, this course of continues to be fairly uncommon, which implies there’s not a lot widespread information about find out how to organise this, how a lot it prices or who’s chargeable for doing it.
Who’s chargeable for stopping my gasoline provide?
It’s your power provider’s job to take away your gasoline meter and ensure the incoming gasoline provide is capped. Proper now, as a result of we get so few requests, we provide this service without cost.
As soon as the meter has been eliminated and the availability has been capped, you gained’t should pay a each day standing cost for gasoline.
What concerning the gasoline pipes that hook up with my property?
The Fuel Community Operator (GNO) is chargeable for the gasoline pipe that comes from the gasoline essential into the property. A while after your gasoline has been disconnected, they’ll seemingly go to your property to test issues out, and would possibly determine to disconnect the gasoline pipe that runs into the home from the gasoline essential on the street.
In the event you ever wanted an present gasoline pipe in your property to be moved or eliminated (for instance if constructing work is being carried out and the prevailing pipe is in the way in which), you should contact your native GNO to do that work. Discover out who your Fuel Community Operator is right here.
Will you ever cost for disconnecting my gasoline provide?
The electrical energy and gasoline meters in properties across the nation aren’t owned by prospects, or us – they’re truly owned by companies referred to as Meter Asset Suppliers (or MAPs).
They cost us (and different power suppliers) a month-to-month rental price in your meter, and in some cases they do cost suppliers for eradicating a meter, as a result of they’ll lose out on future earnings.
Proper now, as a result of we get a reasonably small variety of these requests, we’re shouldering these fees and eradicating the meters freed from cost for patrons. However because it turns into extra widespread, we’d want to begin charging for the removing of gasoline meters, not simply to cowl the MAP’s prices but additionally to cowl the fee for the engineer’s time. We’ll try to keep away from this and can in fact let you understand about any prices earlier than reserving or finishing up the work.
Essential notice: within the majority of instances the removing of the meter is pretty easy. Nevertheless, generally there could also be different works concerned in capping the availability that can require the community to make alterations to your provide. In these instances we don’t cowl the extra prices incurred by that third occasion, however the work we do to take away and cap the meter will nonetheless be coated without cost.
We’re working along with MAPs on a long-term resolution, in order that as gasoline capping turns into extra widespread, there’s no value barrier for somebody seeking to go inexperienced and do away with their gasoline provide.
