Lauderhill Utility Submetering and Billing
Solutions for All Types of Multifamily Communities
Customized Water, Electric and Gas
Utility Submetering and Billing Solutions
Oates Energy provides highly flexible Lauderhill utility submetering and billing solutions for Water, Electric and Gas for all types of multifamily communities. Add to that an extensive suite of industry leading billing solutions that can be tailored to the unique needs of each client.
We were founded by industry experts who understand that every property management company has specific ways of managing their property, and that they need their vendors to provide services the way they prefer them to be provided, and not being forced to choose the vendor who is “closest” to their true needs. Oates Energy was organized and built from the ground up to be flexible so that we could adjust all of our services to the exact needs and preferences of each and every client. Contact us to discuss a customized suite of utility submetering and billing services designed specifically for you and your property.
Multifamily Utility Submetering & Billing
Large multifamily communities make up the largest segment of our client base. This is largely due to the fact that we built our company around the utility submetering and billing needs of multifamily communities. We install new and repair or upgrade existing submetering equipment to first assure that we can accurately record and directly read utility consumption accurately.
After assuring that all equipment is functioning properly or that a RUBS solution is in place, we can then bill residents based on usage or on a RUBS formula for properties without submeters again, based on factors that stipulated by the community’s management team. We can even bill for other services and fees such as cable TV, phone and Internet, even garage and pet fees. And our resident billing customer care can handle all billing questions and concerns.
Contact us to discuss a customized Lauderhill utility submetering and billing solution for your community!
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Condominium Communities
We provide condo HOAs and property managers with customized Lauderhill utility submetering and billing solutions tailored to the needs of their communities, just like we do for all of our other markets. Regardless of the existence or condition of your community’s utility submetering systems, we can tailor a billing solution to help you get a better handle on utility costs with solutions designed around your community’s unique needs and that will recover more of your utility costs. Contact us to learn more about our customized utility submetering and billing solutions.
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Mobile Home Parks
Our Lauderhill utility submetering and billing solutions are always a great fit for mobile home parks. Mobile home parks are known to have some very unique requirements; sometimes resident’s have no submeters, others have some utilities submetered and we’ve even help parks that have different utilities metered for different residents. Older direct read meters are also common. Regardless of where your utility submetering system stands, if you have over 50 residences, we can help!
We custom designed utility submetering and billing solutions for parks who wish to install or update their existing systems. And for parks that do not have or prefer not to use utility submeters, we help these park with a “RUBS”, (Ratio Utility Billing System) utility billing solution. Call us to discuss a customized solution designed to recover all of your park’s utility costs!
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Commercial Properties
Many of our commercial properties have tenants with very different utility requirements, large grocery stores will use significantly more electricity than a small hair salon. And restaurants will use much more water than a small retail store. And the ability to accurately submeter each tenant’s utility usage is the key to fairly recovering all utility costs. We design submetering systems to monitor each tenant’s monthly utility usage, and then use that data to accurately bill tenants for their exact usage using billing policies defined by the property’s managers! Contact us to discuss the benefits of a customized Lauderhill utility submetering and billing solution for your commercial property.
Submetering Installation
for New Construction
The installation of utility submetering for new commercial, new multifamily and condominium construction projects has become the new standard with today’s energy costs. And having a reliable and experienced submetering installation partner is important to any general contractor.
Oates Energy has been a trusted partner of general contractors all over the country for over 20 years. Our installation crews install water, electric and gas submetering systems properly and to each area’s local building codes. And we fully test every system we install to assure a successful final inspection. Call us today for a detailed bid on your next project!
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.
