Prepayment energy tariffs - with a prepayment meter, users pay for their energy upfront but when their credit runs out, they can’t use energy until it’s topped up. Does British Gas charge exit fees? British Gas charges exit fees on its fixed energy tariffs. They’re currently £100...
Smart metering, which also known as advanced metering, will provide a higher level of service to customers, primarily by enabling accurate on-demand billing. In addition, the technology will reduce disconnection and reconnection costs, and eliminate the need for suppliers to read customer meters....
The article reports that British Gas PLC has launched the smart meter trial in an attempt to change consumers' electricity consumption habits in Great Britain. Residents will use hand-held devices to measure energy consumption. T...
UK utility British Gas has chosen German company Elster as preferred provider for its initial smart meter rollouts over the next two years. Under the terms of the deal, Elster would provide British Gas with its dual protocol WAN' AS330 e... IGE Group - 《Internatinoal Gas Engineering & ...
The two main sources of data used in the analysis were energy supplier annualised meter point gas and electricity data and the Homes Energy Efficiency Database (HEED). The gas and electricity meter point data was provided by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and covered the...
The petition quoted an anonymised British Gas customer describing the difficulties of the new policy: “I use a pre-pay meter because I can’t afford a direct debit. £5 may not sound a lot, but when you’re scraping together coppers just to make up the money, it can be the differen...
Mr Lewis, who confirmed plans for a clean energy technology park at the site, said the closure was a “tremendously important milestone in the global route to decarbonisation”. When asked if a future with clean energy and no blackouts is possible, he said “absolutely”, adding that soluti...
One drawback of the "chipsail" idea is that having a single few square centimeter chip on a few square meter sail means that one unfortunate interstellar dust impact will obliterate the payload, losing the mission. Simulations of conical sails showed the boundaries of sail shape and payload ...
The "no-ring" or telemetry connection 3 allows telecommunications equipment which operates without customer action to be connected to the network. Examples are burglar alarm systems and telemetry applications for remote meter reading. In these systems the equipment to be monitored is connected to the...
The article reports on the plan of British Gas to create 2,600 skilled jobs in Great Britain by 2012. Employees who will be recruited will lead the rollout of smart meter technology across the country. The company has opened an Energy Academy in Leicester where it will train engineering ...