St Petersburg
Utility Submetering and Billing Services
Recover More of Your Utility Costs with a Customized Utility Billing Solution!
St Petersburg Utility Submetering and Billing for
Water, Electric and Gas
Oates Energy is a leading St Petersburg Utility Submetering and Billing provider for Water, Electric and Gas. Each of our clients enjoy our flexible and customized submetering and billing solutions developed by industry experts to be a suite of services that allow our clients to choose only the services they need and adjust them to their exact requirements.
We design, install and manage solutions for multifamily communities and buildings, condominium communities and buildings, mobile home parks, commercial properties and buildings, and new construction projects which are best suited for communities and buildings with 50 units or more. We partner with these properties by providing a detailed suite of services that include industry leading billing solutions that are flexible and seamlessly integrate with all major property management software brands, Ratio Billing Services, (RUBS) for clients without submeters, full service resident billing customer care, and dedicated client relations managers to personally assist and provide support for all of our services.
Multifamily
Submetering & Billing
Most of our clients across the country are multifamily communities because they often have the largest number of residences and often submeter and bill residents for not only utilities, but also bill other services and fees such as cable TV, phone and Internet, even garage and pet fees. Property managers who need St Petersburg Utility Submetering and Billing prefer Oates Energy because of our unique ability to not only bill for each of these fees but do so exactly how the property managers and owners of these communities request, and support resident billing with a U.S. based billing customer care team using their communities billing policies. We are truly unique in our industry.
Mobile Home Park
Submetering & Billing
Mobile home communities often select Oates Energy for St Petersburg Utility Submetering and Billing because of their often unique requirements. While there are some common characteristics of mobile home parks, they are often very different from one to the next, and bill different residents of the park for different services or fees. We design submetering and billing solutions for virtually any need, and our U.S. based resident billing customer care team supports every resident based on the unique policies of each respect mobile home park we serve.
Commercial Property
Submetering & Billing
Commercial properties can often have very large utility expenses, often because of a few tenants such as restaurants or laundromats. And passing the high utility usage of a few tenants evenly across all of your tenants by including utilities with the lease rates can dramatically increase your advertised lease rates. a customized St Petersburg utility submetering and billing solution allows commercial properties to bill utilities based on usage, not square feet. This allows the property to aggressively market at very competitive lease rates and keep space occupied.
New Construction
Submetering Installation
The best time to add utility submetering to a multifamily community, apartment and condominium buildings, or retail plazas is during construction. At Oates Energy, we install utility submetering in all types of residential and commercial new construction projects. And we do so based on the project’s design specifications. We can also design custom utility submetering solutions. Whatever your project’s utility submetering specifications call for, you can trust that your submetering system will be properly installed by our experienced installation professionals.
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
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