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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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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)
Long title: An Act to provide for the appointment and functions of a Director General of Gas Supply and the establishment and functions of a Gas Consumers' Council; to abolish the privilege conferred on the British Gas Corporation by section 29 of the Gas Act 1972; to make new provision concerning the supply of gas through pipes and certain related matters; to provide for the vesting of the ...