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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.
BG Group plc was a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in Reading, United Kingdom. [3] [4] On 8 April 2015, Royal Dutch Shell announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire BG Group for $70 billion, subject to regulatory and shareholder agreement.
The Big Six were the United Kingdom's largest retail suppliers of gas and electricity, who dominated the market following liberalisation in the late 1990s. By 2002, six companies – British Gas, EDF Energy, E.ON, RWE npower, Scottish Power and SSE – had emerged from the 15 former incumbent monopoly suppliers (the 14 regional public electricity suppliers and British Gas).
The Gas Act 1972 (c. 60) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which restructured the British gas industry. It established the British Gas Corporation to exercise full responsibility for the oversight, control and operation of the gas industry. The twelve autonomous area gas boards which had managed the industry in their areas now ...
The Gas Council was a UK government body that provided strategic oversight of the gas industry in England, Wales and Scotland between 1949 and 1972.. The British gas industry was nationalised under the provisions of the Gas Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6.
It was established on 1 May 1949 under the terms of the Gas Act 1948, and dissolved in 1973 when it became a region of the newly formed British Gas Corporation, British Gas North Eastern, as a result of the Gas Act 1972.
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Utilities (energy: gas) Predecessor: 1812 (as the Gas Light and Coke Company and various others) Founded: 1 May 1949 (by the Gas Act 1948) Defunct: 31 December 1972: Fate: Reorganisation under the Gas Act 1972: Successor: British Gas Corporation (by the Gas Act 1972)