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Number of non-domestic gas meters (thousands) (12403) Metric type
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- This is the total number of non-domestic (commercial and industrial) gas meter points in thousands for the area.
Data is annualised and weather corrected. The consumption period is normally between mid-May to mid-May. Gas meter readings are received by BEIS from Xoserve, who compile these data from gas shippers, who in turn receive the data from gas suppliers. Xoserve introduced a new data collection system in 2017.
Includes all gas distributed through all Local Distribution Zones (LDZ), and gas consumers whose consumption data is recorded daily and are known as Daily Metered (DM) customers. Data does not include considerable amount of consumption fed directly to power stations and some very large industrial consumers as this would be disclosive. Excludes any gas passing through other transmission and distribution systems such as those owned by North Sea producers. It also excludes Unique Site meters (also known as “Non-Standard Sites”, which are billed under a different system to other meters).
The dataset also includes an aggregated total of consumption for unallocated meters. Unallocated meters have insufficient address information, meaning that consumption for these meters is unable to be allocated to a local authority. This can be due to incomplete postcode information, or no postcode information being received at all (usually accounts for less than 1 per cent of consumption). Geographical matching now uses the most recent National Statistics Postcodes Lookup (NSPL) for all years from 2015, reducing the number of meters that could not be allocated to local authorities.
BEIS uses the gas industry cut-off point of 73,200 kWh. All consumers using less than this figure are classed as domestic consumers and those using more are classed as non-domestic consumers. Unfortunately, this classification incorrectly allocates many small businesses to the domestic sector and, conversely, a small number of larger domestic consumers to the non-domestic sector. This also implies that a small number meters can change sector from year to year.
- Modified
- 09 Jan 2023
- Data last updated
- 29 Jan 2024
- Short label
- No. of non-domestic gas meters (thousands)
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- not applicable
- Measure
- Meter Points
- Dataset
- Sub-national gas consumption data
- Collection
- Sub-national gas consumption data
- Source
- Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
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