Ready to connect to natural gas? Getting started is easy.
Complete the inquiry form and a BGE Natural Gas Connection Program representative will contact you to let you know whether natural gas service is available for your home.
What happens next?
- BGE Contacts You. A BGE Natural Gas Connection Program representative will contact you to let you know whether natural gas service is available for your home.
- Complete An Application. If natural gas service is available to your home, a BGE Natural Gas Connection Program representative will provide you with a welcome email and direct you to the Service Installation and Upgrades Portal, where you will need to provide details about your project.
STEPS TO CONVERT TO GAS
1
- INITIATION (1 week)
- Confirmation call from BGE
- Complete the online application
- BGE reviews customer application and accepts or rejects it
- Customer selects a contractor for house load side piping
2
- DESIGN (4–6 weeks)
- BGE designer calls customer and reviews customer project needs
- BGE designer visits the customer's home to help identify a potential meter location
- Final Design Print is completed and sent for customer approval
- Customer signs and returns the Final Design Print and signs the installation contract with BGE
- Customer's contractor installs house load side pipe and gets municipal inspection
3
- SCHEDULING (3–4 weeks)
- Customer calls or emails BGE to schedule the service and meter installation
- BGE provides the customer with a week-of date for service and meter installation
- Customer has public and private utilities marked
4
- CONSTRUCTION (3–4 weeks)
- Customer receives notice of installation day 48 hours in advance
- BGE installs service and meter
5
- CONNECTION (within 12 months)
- Customer's contractor returns and connects house load side piping to the meter
- Customers connect all appliances listed on the application. Additional cost will apply if they are not installed
- BGE returns to restore property disturbed by the service and meter installation, if necessary