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The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014
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4.—(1) Where heating, cooling or hot water is supplied from a district heat network to a building occupied by more than one final customer, the heat supplier must ensure that meters are installed to measure that heating, cooling or hot water to that building.
(2) A meter installed in accordance with paragraph (1) must be situated at a heat exchanger in that building or at the point of entry of the district heat network pipes into the building.
[F1(2A) Heat suppliers must comply with paragraph (3) or (4) in respect of all buildings in the viable class supplied by a district heat network or communal heating operated by them.
(2B) A heat supplier must comply with paragraph (3) or (4) before 1st September 2022 in respect of a building which first falls within the open class before that date, where the heat supplier determines that it is cost effective and technically feasible to install meters in the building.
(2C) A determination for the purpose of paragraph (2B) is to be made—
(a)before 27th November 2021, where the building first falls within the open class before that date; or
(b)otherwise, before 1st September 2022.
(2D) Where a heat supplier determines that it is cost effective and technically feasible to install meters in a building which first falls within the open class on or after 1st September 2022, the heat supplier must comply with paragraph (3) or (4) when the building first falls within the open class.]
(3) Where only one final customer occupies a building supplied by a district heat network, the heat supplier must ensure that meters are installed to measure the consumption of heating, cooling or hot water by that final customer.
(4) Where there is more than one final customer in a building supplied by a district heat network, or by communal heating, the heat supplier must ensure that [F2sufficient] meters are installed to measure the consumption of heating, cooling or hot water by each final customer.
F3(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[F4(6) A determination as to whether it is cost effective and technically feasible to install meters in a building must be made on the basis of an analysis carried out in accordance with Schedule 1.
(7) Within four years of making a determination, a heat supplier who determines that it is not cost effective or technically feasible to install meters in the building—
(a)must make a further determination; and
(b)if the heat supplier then determines that it is cost effective and technically feasible to install meters in the building, must comply with paragraph (3) or (4) within that four year period.
(7A) Paragraph (7) does not apply where meters to which paragraph (3) or (4) applies or heat cost allocators, thermostatic radiator valves and hot water meters to which regulation 6(2) applies have been installed in the building.]
(8) Where a meter to which paragraph (3) or (4) applies is installed, the heat supplier must ensure that temperature control devices are installed to enable the control of the consumption of heating or cooling by a final customer from that district heat network or communal heating.
F5(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 4(2A)-(2D) inserted (27.11.2020) by The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1221), regs. 1(2), 6(2)
F2Word in reg. 4(4) inserted (27.11.2020) by The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1221), regs. 1(2), 6(3)
F3Reg. 4(5) omitted (27.11.2020) by virtue of The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1221), regs. 1(2), 6(4)
F4Reg. 4(6)-(7A) substituted for reg. 4(6)(7) (27.11.2020) by The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1221), regs. 1(2), 6(5)
F5Reg. 4(9) omitted (20.4.2015) by virtue of The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/855), regs. 1, 4
Commencement Information
I1S. 4(1)-(3), (5)-(9) in force at 18.12.2014, s. 4(4) in force at 31.12.2016, see reg. 1
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