On 22/08/2016 10:31, Clive Page wrote:
There has been a news story this weekend about EON overcharging a number
of customers because their gas meters measured cubic metres when they
should have measured cubic feet, or maybe vice-versa. These stories are
all confused and hard to believe, especially because the ratio of these
units is around 35.3:1, and anyone who had a bill to small or too large
by a factor of 35 would surely notice. Does anyone understand what
actually went on here - the newspaper and website reports don't help at
all, and no reporter seems clued up enough to investigate or explain.

The imperial meters measure in "units" of 100 cu.ft, so the difference
is a factor of about 2.8

I can check easily enough whether my gas meter is recording cubic feet
or metres and corresponds to what is on the bill, but is there any easy
way for the consumer to check that a gas meter is actually recording
roughly the right number of cubit feet/metres? With an electricity
meter it's not too hard: turn everything off but one appliance such as a
1kW heater, then run it for a set length of time. But checking a gas
meter seems very difficult for the end user.


You could look at a high gas user like a boiler, check its input power
in kW and convert to an expected gas rate in m^3/hr or 100cu.ft/hr.

See:

http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php/Gas_units




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Cheers,

John.

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