Delgaz Grid invested, in 2023, over 35 million lei for the purchase and installation of over 200,000 natural gas meters, representing 10% of the approximately 2 million meters located in the gas installations of the company’s consumers.

About 150,000 meters were installed at customers’ gas installations where the measuring means were metrologically overdue, and 50,000 were installed at new customers. At the same time, last year another 100,000 metrologically recertified meters were installed in laboratories authorized and supervised by the Romanian Bureau of Legal Metrology.

The replacement, installation and reading of meters are very important operations as the amount of natural gas consumed and measured by the meters is the basis for issuing invoices and that is why Delgaz Grid pays special attention to them.

According to the current regulations, the replacement of natural gas meters is done when they are due from a metrological point of view, at an interval of eight years. Meter reading is done by natural gas distribution companies once every three months for manually read devices, and monthly for remotely read devices.