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Bord Gáis Energy is a utility company that supplies gas and electricity and boiler services to customers in Ireland. Bord Gáis Energy has been in operation in some form since 1976 and supplies over 750,000 customers with energy in Ireland. [1] Since mid-2014 Bord Gáis Energy is also part of the British Centrica plc Group. [2]
It is the trading name of British Gas Services Limited and British Gas New Heating Limited, both subsidiaries of Centrica. [5] Serving around ten million homes in the United Kingdom, British Gas was the largest electricity supplier in the country until 2024 when it was overtaken by Octopus Energy. [6] It remains the largest gas supplier.
This is a list of British natural gas companies. Exploration and production: Cuadrilla Resources; IGas Energy; Utilities: British Gas (also uses Scottish Gas and Nwy Prydain brands) (parent company Centrica) EDF Energy (parent of London Energy, Seeboard and SWEB Energy) Npower (parent company RWE) Powergen Retail (parent Company E.ON)
GB Gas Holdings Limited, founded 1996, which holds British Gas (also known as Scottish Gas). [11] [12] [13] Centrica Hive Ltd, founded in 2007. [14] In 1998, Centrica's supplier monopoly for gas came to an end. Centrica maintained the British Gas retail brand but is only allowed to use this brand name in the United Kingdom.
These boards simply became known as the "gas board", a term people still use when referring to British Gas, the company that replaced the boards when the Gas Act 1972 was passed. The area boards became regions of the British Gas Corporation.
The British Gas Federation was established in 1934 to represent collective interests of the council and association. [1] In 1943 the industry proposed the establishment of the British Gas Council amalgamating the two existing bodies. [4] The new organisation was established in 1946 as a company limited by guarantee.
BP p.l.c. (formerly The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. and BP Amoco p.l.c.; stylised in all lowercase) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. It is one of the oil and gas " supermajors " and one of the world's largest companies measured by revenues and profits. [ 3 ]
Bentley was group finance director of Centrica from 2000 to February 2007. [6] and was also managing director, Europe from July 2004 to September 2006.[6]On 19 September 2006 it was announced that Bentley would become the managing director of British Gas, part of the Centrica group, taking over from Mark Clare from March 2007. [7]