February 16, 2015

Actual Gas Sales volume in January 2015 Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd. Gas Sales Volume for the month January 2015

Total gas sales volume by Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd. for the month of January 2015 came to about 1,654.677 million m3, up 4.2% to that in January 2014.
In the residential sector, volume totaled 511.778 million m3, up 1.2% from January 2014, due to the increased number of customers compared to that in the same period last year.
In the business sector (consisting of commercial, public, and medical use), volume totaled 286.21 million m3, almost equal (up 0.3%) to that in the same period last year.
In the industrial sector, volume totaled 632.467 million m3, up 9.8% from January 2014, due to the increased demand for power generation.
Volume for wholesale supply to other gas companies totaled 224.221 million m3, up 1.8% from
January 2014, due to the increased demand of the other companies.

1. Gas sales volume

Unit: thousand m3/45MJ, %

Use (sector)

January

January

Change

Cumulative

Cumulative

Change

2015

2014

Rate of

sales for

sales for

Rate of

change

relative to fiscal

2013

fiscal 2014 (from April to

Jan.)

fiscal 2013 (from April

to Jan.)

change

relative to fiscal

2013

Residential

511,778

505,923

5,855

1.2

2,513,099

2,467,075

46,024

1.9

Business

286,210

285,435

775

0.3

2,089,945

2,167,227

-77,282

-3.6

Industrial

632,467

576,054

56,413

9.8

5,856,371

5,103,660

752,711

14.7

Total

1,430,455

1,367,413

63,042

4.6

10,459,415

9,737,963

721,452

7.4

Wholesale

224,221

220,293

3,928

1.8

1,906,338

1,835,331

71,007

3.9

Total

1,654,677

1,587,706

66,971

4.2

12,365,753

11,573,294

792,459

6.8

Note: Due to rounding, totals may not equal the sums of their parts

1

2. Basic factors

(1) Temperature*

Unit: °C

April

May

June

July

Aug.

Sept.

Average for

the first half

FY 2014

12.7

17.2

21.6

24.0

27.6

24.2

21.2

FY 2013

12.8

16.5

21.1

24.6

27.3

26.9

21.5

Change

-0.1

0.7

0.5

-0.6

0.3

-2.7

-0.3

Oct.

Nov.

Dec.

Jan.

Feb.

March

Average for

the second half

Average for

the fiscal year (April 1

~March 31)

FY 2014

20.6

15.7

9.8

5.9

-

-

-

-

FY 2013

21.6

15.1

9.8

5.4

5.2

6.9

10.7

19.5

Change

-1.0

0.6

0.0

0.5

-

-

-

-

*The weighted average of temperature through each customer's metering days (from previous metering day to that of this

month)

As the monitoring site of temperature was changed from Otemachi to Kitanomaru-Garden on December 2, 2014, temperatures described above are those at Kitanomaru-Garden.

(2) Number of new customers

Unit: customers. %

April

May

June

July

Aug.

Sept.

First half

FY 2014

15,345

15,376

17,126

18,320

15,939

19,308

101,414

FY 2013

13,722

14,687

14,648

18,426

16,296

17,728

95,507

Change

1,623

689

2,478

-106

-357

1,580

5,907

Rate of change

11.8

4.7

16.9

-0.6

-2.2

8.9

6.2

Oct.

Nov.

Dec.

Jan.

Feb.

March

Second

half

Total for the

fiscal year

(April 1

~March 31)

FY 2014

20,723

17,897

21,094

22,479

-

-

-

-

FY 2013

17,767

17,205

19,382

22,133

23,190

28,854

128,531

224,038

Change

2,956

692

1,712

346

-

-

-

-

Rate of change

16.6

4.0

8.8

1.6

-

-

-

-

(3) Number of customers

Unit: thousand of customers, %

April

May

June

July

Aug.

Sept.

FY 2014

10,816

10,824

10,834

10,844

10,853

10,865

FY 2013

10,683

10,689

10,695

10,705

10,715

10,724

Change

133

135

139

139

138

141

Rate of change

1.2

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.3

Oct.

Nov.

Dec.

Jan.

Feb.

March

FY 2014

10,878

10,889

10,906

10,920

-

-

FY 2013

10,734

10,743

10,756

10,771

10,787

10,809

Change

144

146

150

149

-

-

Rate of change

1.3

1.4

1.4

1.4

-

-

2

Gas sales volume in FY2013 and FY2012

Unit: thousand m3/45MJ, %

Use(sector)

January in

January in

Cumulative sales

Cumulative sales

Use(sector)

2014

Rate of

Change relative to fiscal

2012

2013

Rate of

Change relative to fiscal

2011

for fiscal 2013

(from Apr. 2013 to Jan. 2014)

Rate of change relative to fiscal

2012

for fiscal 2012

(from Apr. 2012 to Jan. 2013)

Rate of change relative to fiscal

2011

Residential

505,923

-3.0

521,366

2.1

2,467,075

-5.1

2,598,590

3.2

Business

285,435

-2.3

292,100

0.8

2,167,227

-1.7

2,204,236

3.2

Industrial

576,054

6.6

540,293

7.8

5,103,660

3.7

4,920,046

10.4

Subtotal

1,367,413

1.0

1,353,760

4.0

9,737,963

0.2

9,722,872

6.7

Wholesale

220,293

3.9

211,953

-5.5

1,835,331

1.4

1,810,612

1.3

Total

1,587,706

1.4

1,565,712

2.6

11,573,294

0.3

11,533,483

5.8

Rate of increase relative to the previous year by segment (single months, FY2014 and FY2013)

Unit: %

Use(sector)

April

May

June

July

Aug.

Sept.

Oct.

Nov.

Dec.

Jan.

Feb.

Mar.

Residential

FY 2014

4.5

-4.6

-1.7

8.5

3.2

16.0

9.6

-1.5

-1.8

1.2

-

-

Residential

FY 2013

-11.5

1.0

-8.0

-11.3

-6.8

1.7

7.7

-0.4

-11.4

-3.0

6.7

5.2

Business

FY 2014

0.5

-5.0

1.1

-2.4

-4.8

-11.1

-6.4

-2.0

-5.2

0.3

-

-

Business

FY 2013

-7.5

-1.1

5.1

2.1

-0.3

-1.8

-0.8

-0.1

-7.5

-2.3

5.2

6.4

Industrial

FY 2014

17.5

14.8

25.5

16.3

16.6

11.2

5.9

13.9

17.0

9.8

-

-

Industrial

FY 2013

10.0

18.1

8.6

6.5

5.1

2.4

-4.1

-6.3

-4.5

6.6

10.6

23.5

Total

FY 2014

10.0

5.0

14.0

10.5

8.7

5.5

3.8

6.5

6.8

4.6

-

-

Total

FY 2013

-1.4

8.4

3.6

2.0

1.7

1.1

-1.2

-3.7

-7.3

1.0

8.0

13.4

Wholesale

FY 2014

-6.4

3.0

6.1

5.1

6.2

4.9

7.2

0.4

11.1

1.8

-

-

Wholesale

FY 2013

1.2

-0.2

-0.6

2.4

-1.5

2.9

2.8

2.1

0.0

3.9

8.3

9.4

Total

FY 2014

7.4

4.7

12.7

9.6

8.3

5.4

4.4

5.4

7.5

4.2

-

-

Total

FY 2013

-1.0

7.0

2.9

2.1

1.2

1.4

-0.6

-2.7

-6.2

1.4

8.1

12.8

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