Calorific Value on bills - gas

[Harry Bloomfield]

I thought there was a legal requirement for the CV, on which they calculate the Kw and hence the cost - to be indicated on the fuel bill?

[ss]

Bulb energy have this figure at the bottom of their monthly statement/Bill page and I believe although dont have a copy now OVO also did that.

[Max Demian]

Well British Gas do - currently 39.3 megajoules per cubic metre - they don't give the units as that might scare people I suppose.

[Harry Bloomfield]

ss has brought this to us :

Bristol, my ex-supplier don't. They just give a Kw and a charge. They do show an explample standard calculation, which includes the CV, but is that CV the one they base the charge on or is it just that, an example?

If it is the variable CV, they ought to make it clearer.

[The Other Mike]

There is

For the current CV for a particular gas zone

For a finding out which gas zone your postcode is in

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[The Other Mike]

Yes, just do the calculation and it should be within a pence or so

The Calorific Value is published every day for each gas zone, they use the average for the bill. See my other post for all the links.

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[Harry Bloomfield]

The Other Mike explained on 20/12/2018 :

[Max Demian]

Doesn't your meter measure cubic metres? If so, you could work it out, apart from "volume correction". (What pressure do gas meters work at, anyway?)

[alan_m]

+1 My supplier is Avro and their on-line bills state the calorific value in the section on how that calculated the amount on the bill.

[Terry Casey]

A PENCE????

Not long after decimalisation in the 70s, I was being served a pint by girl of around 20 and didn't have quite enough change. "Oh", she said, "I'm sure we can let you off the odd one pence!"

"A penny", I said, "One pennt, two or more pence."

"Oh, that's the old money", she replied.

Now I am not a gambler, unless it is a dead cert, so I got out my wallet, removed a £10 note and told her that if she could find a penny in the till with 'one new pence' on it, I'd give her the tenner for it!

A large pile of pennies was dumped on the back bar and she started sifting through them. Of course, it disn't take her long to realise that she was fighting a losing battle.

Pity. I would have gladly swapped the coin, had she found one, for my tenner as it would have made a fortune at auction!

[John Rumm]

They are on the customer's side of the main governor, so probably a static pressure of about 26 mBar, and a dynamic (i.e. with gas flowing) pressure of 21 mBar.

[Andy Burns]

UtilityPoint do show it, and the volume correction factor.

[bert]

So do OVO