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The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014

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Duty to install meters

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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.

(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 meters are installed to measure the consumption of heating, cooling or hot water by each final customer.

(5) A heat supplier need not comply with paragraphs (3) and (4) unless it is cost effective and technically feasible to do so.

(6) A determination of cost effectiveness and technical feasibility under paragraph (5) must be made by the heat supplier in accordance with Schedule 1.

(7) Where a heat supplier has determined that installation of meters is not cost effective or technically feasible, a further determination in accordance with Schedule 1 must be repeated by a heat supplier within four years of the date of the first determination and if meters have not been installed within every four year period thereafter from the date of the previous determination.

(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.

(9) Where a meter to which this regulation applies is installed the heat supplier must ensure that is satisfies the requirements of regulation 5.

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