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...
The article reports on the unveiling of a GBP20 million scheme by the Great Britain government to test domestic smart meters. 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 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...
Landis+Gyr Partners with British Gas to deliver UK's first major smart meter deployment smart grid realisation, has announced it has been selected by the UK's largest energy supplier, British Gas (parent company Centrica [LSE:CNA]) to support the UK's first commercial-scale smart meter ...
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...
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...
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 ...
One evening at an especially ambitious performance he and all his assistants suddenly joined their ancestors in a spectacular explosion, taking the gunpowder secret with them.' He moved a hand expressively and I smiled. `Now if we could go back into the past and observe this Branch Line we ...
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 ...
The article reports that British Gas Business has withdrawn from the government's trials of smart meters in Great Britain. The two-year trials are intended to determine whether smart metering can encourage consumers...