Kissimmee Utility Submetering and Billing
Customized to the Needs of Your Community
Kissimmee Utility Submetering and Billing
for Water, Electric and Gas
Oates Energy provides highly customizable Kissimmee utility submetering and billing solutions for Water, Electric and Gas. Since we began over two decades ago, we have specialized in providing only the utility submetering and billing services each respective client wished to use and then helped them customize how we provided the services they selected. Unlike most of our competitors, we do not offer predetermined groups or bundles of services that often force property managers to choose the bundle that is “closest” to their actual needs. Below is a closer look at the services we provide and how we support a few of our key markets.
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Multifamily Communities
Many multifamily communities consist of hundreds of residences who’s utilities are usually submetered. In addition to billing residents for their utility usage each month, property managers usually also bill monthly for other services and fees such as cable TV, phone and Internet, even garage and pet fees. And managing the recovery of utility costs and the billing for these other monthly charges and fees can be a timely and complicated monthly task for any multifamily property manager.
Oates Energy has customized unique solutions to handle this huge responsibility for countless multifamily communities across the country. We can help with utility submetering and our billing services are second to none, and can be performed however you would like us to provide them. Speak with us about a customized Kissimmee utility submetering and billing solution for your community.
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Condominium Communities
Condominium community property managers who look into using a utility submetering and billing solutions provider, usually have a hard time finding a provider that is a good fit. At Oates energy we understand the unique and sometimes very specific needs and preferences of HOAs and have created a suite of services that allows a community’s management to select only the services the feel they need and then adjust the services they selected to be provided they way they need them to be provided. Truly customized solutions designed to encourage conservation by accurately billing residents based on utility usage. Contact us to design the perfect Kissimmee utility submetering and billing solution for your community.
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Mobile Home Parks
Oates Energy is always a great fit for mobile home parks. Even those with as few as 50 residences. We install new remote read utility submetering systems, update existing systems, and can provide meter reading services for parks with direct read utility submeters. We customize alternative billing solutions such as “RUBS”, (Ratio Utility Billing System) for parks that do not have utility submeters.
We can also provide resident billing customer care to help residents with any billing questions and do so using your park’s unique billing policies and guidelines. Speak with us about a customized Kissimmee utility submetering and billing solution designed to encourage conservation and help you recover more of your parks utility costs.
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Commercial Properties
Commercial properties sometimes include utilities as a portion of the monthly lease rates when they do not have utility submetering systems in place. However, there is a downside to this. Recovering utility costs this way can be inaccurate and can cause advertised lease rates to be less competitive than commercial properties that submeter utilities and bill for utilities separate from lease rates. Contact us to discuss a customized Kissimmee utility submetering and billing solution for your commercial property.
Submetering Installation
for New Construction
Oates energy has been installing utility submetering all over the U.S. for over two decades. And many general contractors regularly turn to us for their commercial and residential new construction projects because we consistently deliver water, electric and gas submetering system installations on time and within budget. And we have an excellent reputation for quality workmanship and jobsite safety. If you are planning a project that will require utility submetering system installation, we would appreciate the opportunity to provide you with a detailed bid!
Utility Submetering Laws and Regulations in Florida
*Where individual metering is not required and master metering is used in lieu thereof, reasonable apportionment methods, including submetering may be used by the customer of record or the owner of such facility solely for the purpose of allocating the cost of the electricity billed by the utility. The term “cost” as used herein means only those charges specifically authorized by the electric utility’s tariff, including but not limited to the customer, energy, demand, fuel, conservation, capacity and environmental charges made by the electric utility plus applicable taxes and fees to the customer of record responsible for the master meter payments.
The term “cost” does not include late payment charges, returned check charges, the cost of the customer-owned distribution system behind the master meter, the customer of record’s cost of billing the individual units, and other such costs. Any fees or charges collected by a customer of record for electricity billed to the customer’s account by the utility, whether based on the use of submetering or any other allocation method, shall be determined in a manner which reimburses the customer of record for no more than the customer’s actual cost of electricity.
Each utility shall develop a standard policy governing the provisions of submetering as provided for herein. Such policy shall be filed by each utility as part of its tariffs. The policy shall have uniform application and shall be nondiscriminatory (Fla. Administrative Code §25-6.049).
*Information courtesy of:
The National Conference of State Legislatures
WestlawNext, 2016.
