Galveston Utility Submetering and Billing Services
Customized Solutions for Your Community or Commercial Property
Galveston Utility Submetering and Billing for
Water, Electric and Gas
If you are a property manager exploring Galveston utility submetering and billing providers, Oates Energy offers a flexible and proven solution. Multifamily and commercial properties choose us for the efficiency and adaptability of our water, electric, and gas submetering and billing services. Our approach is designed to align with your operations, helping you manage utilities more effectively while improving overall cost recovery.
Our Galveston utility submetering and billing solutions are fully customizable, allowing you to tailor every aspect of service delivery to your specific needs and preferences. From system design to billing structure, we adjust our services to fit your property rather than forcing a standard model. Below is a closer look at how we support several of our key markets with customized solutions.
Multifamily
Submetering & Billing
Oates Energy was founded by industry experts who recognized that, while multifamily properties may appear similar, property managers often have very different approaches to managing their communities and recovering utility costs. This insight shaped our flexible approach to Galveston utility submetering and billing, allowing us to offer solutions that go beyond standard industry capabilities and adapt to each property’s unique requirements.
With Galveston utility submetering and billing, we provide a comprehensive suite of services that can be selected individually and customized to match your exact preferences. Property managers choose only what they need and then refine how those services are delivered to fit their operations. Contact Oates Energy to design a tailored solution that helps your community operate more efficiently and recover more of its utility costs.
Condominium Utility
Submetering & Billing
Condominium property managers and HOAs rely on Galveston utility submetering and billing from Oates Energy because of the flexibility we provide. Rather than forcing communities into preset service packages, we allow you to select only the services you need and then customize how those services are delivered to match your exact preferences. This tailored approach ensures your billing and submetering system aligns with your community’s operations and goals. Contact us to discuss a customized solution designed specifically for your condominium community.
Mobile Home Park
Submetering & Billing
Mobile home parks often have highly variable utility setups, from older direct-read meters that require manual readings to properties where submetered utilities differ by residence, or are not installed at all. Our Galveston utility submetering and billing solutions are designed to handle these complexities with fully customized approaches that fit each park’s unique situation. We can tailor systems for even the most challenging scenarios, providing accurate billing and improved cost recovery. Best of all, we deliver this level of flexibility cost-effectively for parks with as few as 50 residences. Contact us to design a solution built specifically for your park.
Commercial Property
Submetering & Billing
Commercial property managers choose Galveston utility submetering and billing from Oates Energy because of the flexibility to use only the services they need and customize how those services are delivered. From submetering system installation, upgrades, and repairs to fully adaptable billing solutions, every aspect is tailored to match your property’s specific requirements and your preferences. This approach ensures efficient utility management, accurate cost recovery, and a solution designed entirely around how you want your property to operate.
New Construction
Submetering Installation
For more than 20 years, we have installed water, electric, and gas utility submetering systems for projects across the country, including multifamily and condominium communities, commercial developments, and mobile home parks. Every system is installed to meet local building codes, thoroughly tested, and prepared for final inspection, ensuring reliable performance from day one. Our team is known for quality workmanship, strong jobsite safety practices, and consistently completing projects on schedule. If your upcoming project requires utility submetering installation, we would be pleased to provide a detailed and competitive 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
WestlawNext, 2016.
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