Fort Worth
Utility Billing and Submetering Services
A Divers and Customizable Suite of Utility Billing and Submetering Solutions for Residential and Commercial Properties
Fort Worth Water, Electric and Gas
Utility Billing and Submetering
Oates Energy is a leading provider of customized Water, Electric and Gas Utility Submetering and Billing Solutions. Our Fort Worth Utility Billing and Submetering Services were developed by industry experts as a completely flexible suite of services that allow our clients to choose only the services they need and adjust them to their exact requirements. Each of our clients enjoy a totally customized submetering and billing suite of services that are delivered the way the need and prefer.
Our submetering and billing service are best suited for multifamily communities and buildings, condominium communities and buildings, mobile home parks and commercial properties and buildings with 50 units or more. And we provide these types of properties with a detailed suite of services that include industry leading billing solutions that are flexible and seamlessly integrate with all major property management software brands, full service resident billing customer care, and dedicated client relations managers to personally assist and provide support for all of our services.
Multifamily
Submetering & Billing
Fort Worth utility billing and submetering made easy! From the moment you choose Oates energy and for years thereafter, you will be pleased with how efficient utility management and efficiency in billing can be. We will help you seamlessly transition to Oates Energy, support your resident’s questions initially and whenever they need assistance, and support you by dedicating a single point of contact for anything you need; your personal Client Relations Manager.
Contact Us to learn more about why so many property managers and property owners choose Oates Energy for their communities utility submetering and billing needs.
Mobile Home Park
Submetering & Billing
Mobile home communities choose Oates Energy because of custom tailored solutions. From moving from well water to city water and adding submetering, to billing differences between residents, to RUBS billing solutions for parks without utility submetering. We can customize a Fort Worth utility billing and submetering solution that will help your park recover more of its utility costs and help you operate more efficiently.
Commercial Property
Submetering & Billing
We’re experts in designing customized Fort Worth utility billing and submetering solutions for commercial properties. From integrating your property management software with our systems, to designing designing a submetering systems tailored to your tenants utility usage requirements, to our U.S. Based billing customer care team that will assist your tenants. Our ability to recover more of your water, electric and gas utility costs improve operational efficiency and allow you to set more competitive lease rates that do not include monthly utility costs.
New Construction
Submetering Installation
We’ve been helping multifamily property developers and general contractors with new construction utility submetering installation for decades. Our experienced technicians install utility submetering systems properly and professionally, we are careful to follow local building codes and we test every system we install to assure that your utility submetering systems will pass final inspection with flying colors. If you need utility submetering installation, look no further than Oates Energy! Call us for a detailed utility submetering bid.
Utility Submetering Laws and Regulations in Texas
A political subdivision may not authorize the construction or occupancy of a new apartment house, including the conversion of property to a condominium, unless the construction plan provides for the measurement of the quantity of electricity consumed by the occupants of each dwelling unit of the apartment house, either by individual metering by the utility company or by submetering by the owner.
This section does not prohibit a political subdivision from issuing a permit to a nonprofit organization for construction of a new apartment house for occupancy by low-income elderly tenants if the nonprofit organization establishes, by submitting engineering and cost data and a sworn statement, that all cost savings will be passed on to the low-income elderly tenants (Tex. Utilities Code Ann. §184.012).
The Texas Water Code requires each unit in a building with five or more residential units built after Jan. 1, 2003 to have either an individual water utility meter or sub-meter. If feasible, it requires water companies to install individual meters in such buildings at the building owner’s request. The water company can charge reasonable costs for installing the meters. If the water company determines that installing these meters is not feasible, the law requires the property owner to install a plumbing system compatible with sub-meters.
For submetering multi-unit property owners, the state’s water code limits submetering charges on tenants to the cost per gallon and applicable taxes and surcharges charged by the water company; a late fee up to five percent of the late bill; and a service charge of up to nine percent of the costs related to submetering allocated to each sub-metered unit. The code also requires the property owners to maintain adequate records and make them available to tenants and sub-meters to meet certain standards for accuracy, testing, and record keeping (Texas Water Code §13.501 through 13.506).
*Information courtesy of:
The National Conference of State Legislatures
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