OREANDA-NEWS. February 15, 2011.  Total gas sales volume by Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd., for the month of January 2011 came to 1,424.714 million m3, decreased by 15.870 million m3 (-1.1%) from January 2010.

In the residential sector, volume totaled 486.185 million m3, down 1.1% from January 2010, due to the less metering days according to metering schedule than in last January, in spite of lower average temperature of January than in the previous year, which increased the demand for water-heating and space-heating.

In the business sector (consisting of commercial, public, and medical use), the sales volume was 277.329 million m3, which is about the same (+0.2%) as that of last January.
In the industrial sector, volume totaled about 444.268 million m3, down 6.0% from last year due to existing customers’ demand decrease, etc.

Volume for wholesale supply to other gas companies totaled about 216.931 million m3, up 8.6% from January 2010, due to increased demand of wholesale gas suppliers.

The total gas sales volume for the cumulative period of April 2010 to January 2011 was 10,912.661 million m3, up by 3.7%.

More details at http://www.tokyo-gas.co.jp/Press_e/20110215-01e.pdf