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Landlords of Multi-let Buildings - New metering and billing requirements

New regulations impose obligations on landlords (with penalties for non-compliance) regarding communal heating and cooling systems.

The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014 apply to residential, commercial and industrial buildings and require landlords (as heat suppliers) to:

  • provide information about the communal heating and cooling systems in their multi-let buildings to the National Measurements Office (NMO) by 30 April 2015;
  • install meters, if it is cost effective and technically feasible to do so, to measure the supply of heat/cooling/hot water to individual occupiers in those buildings by 31 December 2016; and
  • base bills on the actual supply to the individual occupiers.  
The liability to comply with the Regulations is on the “heat supplier” who is the person who supplies and charges for the heating, cooling or hot water to a final customer, whether through communal heating or a district heat network. The NMO has issued Guidance to help clarify who and what is caught by the Regulations.

If you think the Regulations may apply to you then you need to act now to determine which buildings may be affected and make the required notification by 30 April 2015. You must then carry out the analysis of cost effectiveness and technical feasibility.

Posted on 04/02/2015 by Ortolan

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