San Angelo Utility Submetering and Billing
Custom Designed to Recover More of Your Utility Costs
San Angelo Utility Submetering and Billing
for Water, Electric and Gas.
Oates Energy is a leading national provider of water, electric and gas utility submetering and billing services. Multifamily community and commercial property managers us over other San Angelo utility submetering and billing services because how all of our services can be selected individually and then adjusted and customized to meet each property managers unique needs and preferences. Below is a more detailed look at how we serve a few of our key markets.
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Multifamily Communities
Multifamily communities represent the bulk of our customer base because of the flexibility of our billing services and how they can be customized. There has always been a standard in our industry of providers delivering bundles or sets of services to all of their customers the same way, (to sell more of their less popular services). But while this approach is more profitable and easier to manage for the providers, it often results in property managers paying for services they do not need or want and forces them to “adjust” their internal operations to how their utility submetering and billing services are provided.
We are the exact opposite. We help our property managers choose only the services they need and then help them adjust the services they selected to be provided exactly how they need them to be provided. We are the perfect option for property managers that do not want to adjust how they manage their communities and only pay for the services they actually need. Speak with us about the perfect San Angelo utility submetering and billing solution for your community.
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Condominium Communities
Condominium property managers and HOAs benefit by encouraging residents to conserve utilities. And they also benefit by recovering their utility costs as accurately as possible. When this is done effectively, HOA and condo fees can be kept as low as possible.
Our San Angelo utility submetering and billing services offer a customizable way of achieving these goals. We help HOAs and property managers institute a utility submetering systems that track actual usage. This gives residents the ability to control their utility costs by practicing conservative usage, and allows the community to accurately and fairly recover more of its utility costs. Contact us about a custom tailored utility submetering and billing solution for your condominium community!
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Mobile Home Parks
We have partnered with countless mobile home park property managers to help them recover more of their park’s utility costs. Park property managers need cost effective solutions and usually are not interested in making significant investments in submetering equipment. They need effective billing solutions for residents and utilities that are submetered and for those that are not submetered.
We were built for these types of inconsistencies. We engineered our billing and submetering options to be flexible down to the individual resident. We can monitor remote read submetering systems and equipment, provide meter reading services for direct read submeters and for all of their utilities that are not submetered, we can customize and bill residents based on a RUBS formula. We can also bill residents for other monthly charges and fees. And we can do all of this cost effectively for parks with as few as 50 residences. Contact us to discuss a customized San Angelo utility submetering and billing solution for your park.
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Commercial Properties
Commercial property managers who are interested in San Angelo utility submetering and billing solutions prefer our ability to customize and adjust all of our services and support over other options. From utility submetering equipment installation that tracks any level of usage to completely customizable billing solutions. We offer flexible solutions that can be tailored to any commercial property managers exact needs and preferences. Speak with us about the perfect solution for your property.
Submetering Installation
for New Construction
We install water, electric and gas submetering systems for residential multifamily and commercial multi-unit construction projects all over the country. We have an excellent record of jobsite safety and a reputation of quality workmanship and completing projects on time. If you are planning a new project and need a dependable utility submetering system installation contractor that you can count on to get the job done right, 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
WestlawNext, 2016.
