We’re onerous at work constructing a world run fully on inexperienced electrical energy, and as we transfer nearer to that purpose, extra individuals 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 have the ability to share extra data on learn how to take away your meter and cap your gasoline provide.
Shifting away from gasoline
As individuals transfer away from burning gasoline to warmth their houses and their water – ‘electrifying’ these processes as a substitute – we anticipate (and encourage) extra clients to start out disconnecting their gasoline provides.
In the mean time although, this course of continues to be fairly uncommon, which suggests there’s not a lot widespread information about learn how to organise this, how a lot it prices or who’s liable for doing it.
Who’s liable for stopping my gasoline provide?
It’s your vitality 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 at no cost.
As soon as the meter has been eliminated and the availability has been capped, you received’t need to 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 liable for the gasoline pipe that comes from the gasoline primary 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 primary on the street.
In the event you ever wanted an current gasoline pipe in your property to be moved or eliminated (for instance if constructing work is being carried out and the present pipe is in the best way), it’s essential to 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 houses across the nation aren’t owned by clients, or us – they’re truly owned by companies referred to as Meter Asset Suppliers (or MAPs).
They cost us (and different vitality suppliers) a month-to-month rental price on your meter, and in some cases they do cost suppliers for eradicating a meter, as a result of they’ll lose out on future revenue.
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 purchasers. However because it turns into extra widespread, we would want to start out charging for the elimination of gasoline meters, not simply to cowl the MAP’s prices but additionally to cowl the associated fee for the engineer’s time. We’ll attempt to keep away from this and can in fact let you already know about any prices earlier than reserving or finishing up the work.
Essential observe: within the majority of circumstances the elimination 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 circumstances 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 at no 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 price barrier for somebody seeking to go inexperienced and eliminate their gasoline provide.