You could in the coming months access piped cooking gas directly to your kitchen.
This will be possible once the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) starts licensing cooking gas firms to operate piped gas systems in residential areas.
Such a system would see private entities put up storage facilities and pipes to houses, offering consumers easy access to cooking gas in the same manner they do water and electricity.This would be ideal for people living in gated communities and even city flats, the large numbers dwelling in close proximity making it easier for a service provider to put up storage units and piping infrastructure.
The households would in turn pay every month and would be charged for every kilogramme of gas consumed.
The Energy Ministry on Friday published draft regulations for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), among them the process of licensing and policing firms that will operate reticulated piped gas systems in commercial and residential buildings.
