Review of Competition in Gas and Electricity Connections

As a gas transporter, National Grid Gas has a duty under section 9 of the Gas Act 1986 (as amended) to comply as far is reasonably economical to do so with any reasonable request to connect and under section 10 we have a duty to connect premises within 23 metres of a relevant main and to connect self lay pipes. Standard condition 4B: Connection Charges, of the Gas Transporter licence provides for the requirement to have a charging methodology for connections to the system and the duty to provide the first 10 metres of a connection in the public highway free of charge to domestic customers (the Domestic Load Connection Allowance, DLCA).