April 18, 2011

Actual Gas Sales volume in March 2011 and FY2010
Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.

Gas Sales Volume for the month March 2011

Total gas sales volume by Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd., for the month of March 2011 came to about 1,274.13 million m3, decreased by 71.46 million m3 (-5.3%) from March 2010.

In the residential sector, volume totaled 419.499 million m3, up 3.2% from March 2010, due to lower average temperature in March than in the previous year, leading to the demand increase for water-heating and space-heating.

In the business sector (consisting of commercial, public, and medical use), despite of the increased heating demand due to lower average temperature in March, the volume decreased by 2.7% to 249.506 million m3 due to fewer metering days, etc.

In the industrial sector, volume totaled about 422.276 million m3, down 12.0% from last year due to existing customers’ demand decrease, etc.

Volume for wholesale supply to other gas companies totaled about 182.849 million m3, down 9.8% from March 2010 due to decreased demand of wholesale gas suppliers.

FY2010 Gas Sales Volume

On a cumulative basis, the volume from April 2010 up to and including March 2011 totaled 13,441.325 million m3, an increase of 2.2% from the same period of FY 2009.

As for the residential sector, in spite of demand decrease for water-heating caused by higher temperature in summer, lower temperature both in the beginning and the end of FY2010 led to the increase of demand for water-heating and space-heating, which contributed to the increase of annual sales volume by 2.4% to 3,411.761 million m3.

As for the business sector, increased demand for space heating caused by higher temperature in summer led to the increased annual sales volume by 3.0% to 2,875.333 million m3.

In the industrial sector, the annual sales volume was 4,963.307 million m3, up 0.2% compared to the FY2009 result.

In the wholesale sector, annual sales volume increased by 5.7%, 2,190.925 million m3, thanks to the demand increase of wholesale gas suppliers.

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