Plano Utility Submetering and Billing
Recover More of Your Utility Costs with Customized Solutions
Designed Specifically to Your Requirements
Plano Utility Submetering and Billing
for Water, Electric and Gas
As one of the nations leading providers of customized water, electric and gas utility submetering and billing services, we bring all types of multifamily communities and commercial properties a host of custom tailored solutions designed specifically for their needs and preferences. We’re a popular alternative to traditional utility submetering and billing providers because of our ability to adjust our Plano utility submetering and billing services to the unique requirements of multifamily communities and buildings, condominium communities and buildings, mobile home parks, and commercial properties and buildings with as few as 50 units. Below is a closer look at how we serve our key markets.
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Multifamily Communities
Multifamily communities represent the largest segment of our client base. And we are helping more and more multifamily communities make the move to our custom tailored solutions every day. We’re a great fit for multifamily communities because of our ability to provide only the utility submetering and billing services they wish to use and adjust them to be delivered the way they would like them to be provided. In a word, “everything” we provide can be adjusted to how you would like our services to be provided.
Contact Us to learn why Oates Energy has become the preferred utility submetering and billing solutions provider for multifamily communities all over the country.
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Condominium Communities
Property managers and HOAs choose Oates Energy for many of the same reasons that multifamily communities do. But condominium communities use our customizable solutions to encourage utility conservation and bill residents fairly in order to help keep HOA fees as low as possible for their residents. And also because we allow communities to institute our utility submetering and billing solutions tailored to their specific needs and preferences. Contact us about a utility submetering and billing solution for your condominium community!
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Mobile Home Parks
We support the utility submetering and billing of mobile home parks no matter how unique. We install and or repair existing utility submetering systems, we can bill different residents for different utilities, services or fees, and we can adjust and customize our services for virtually any need. Additional services such as our U.S. based resident billing customer care, utility bill auditing and bill pay services give mobile home parks a complete solution for recovering as much of their utility costs as possible. And where many of our competitors avoid partnering with mobile home parks, we specialize in customizing solutions for parks with as few as 50 residents. Contact us to discuss a customized solution for your park!
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Commercial Properties
Commercial properties interested in customized Plano utility submetering and billing solutions prefer Oates Energy because our entire business model was developed to provide only the services a property wants and needs and deliver those services the way they need them to be provided. All of our services and support can be customized and adjusted to the unique needs and preferences of each property and property manager.
From utility submetering system installation to completely customizable billing solutions, commercial properties recover more of their utility costs with Oates Energy!
Submetering Installation
for New Construction
Today’s remote read utility submetering systems have become the new standard in recovering utility costs for all types of multifamily communities. And with the ever increasing cost of utilities, utility submetering has become the new standard for almost every new multifamily construction project.
Oates Energy partners with general contractors all over the country to install water, electric and gas submetering systems for multifamily and commercial new construction projects. We are well versed with today’s remote read wireless submetering system installation and the importance of adhering to local building codes. If you are planning a new project that calls for utility submetering system installation, we would be pleased to provide you with a detailed 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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