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Originally Posted by LexyStarr
Ok I’m confused why are you guys using quadlogic? Is this something your building set you up for I’m lost
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For large buildings or complexes such as multi-family, university campuses or whatever you normally have a master meter situation. There owner of property buys electric, gas or whatever utility at bulk rates and then bills each resident/tenant for their share regardless of use. This system has been around in NYC since 1940's if not before. Tons of pre-war co-ops and rental buildings have master meter systems.
Problem with master meter is each tenant, resident, department or whatever does not know their actual utility use. This and again they're paying same pretty much whether they use a lot of juice or not. People who say shut up their apartments and go to Europe for three months still get hit with electric bills (that can be quite high) because others in building are still using juice.
Sub meter allows each department, apartment, unit, etc... to receive their own "bill" for usage much like having an individual electric meter. Building or complex still receives a discount for buying electric, gas, steam or whatever in bulk however.
By recent NYC laws all new construction for multi-family must have sub-meters. It's either that or each unit h having individual meters with residents setting up own accounts with Con Ed or whoever is supplying juice.
https://www.triacta.com/post/submete...%20the%20state.
Historically large multi-family (say anything over 40 or so units) have frowned on having individual electric meters for each apartment.
For one thing space needs to be dedicated somewhere for all those meters. Thirty five or so (say for a five or six floor building) is one thing, but when you're talking about a building or complex with almost 100 units or more, that's quite a lot of meters.
Also buildings didn't always want to give access to Con Ed or whoever needed to read meters once a billing period.
With the old bulky meters one can see issues named above. However modern smart meters are barely larger than a smart phone and thus take up less space. Indeed with sub-metering as seen today there are still meters for each unit on premises, but they take up vastly less space than previously. Some buildings have either direct or sub-meter (smart type) located in apartment somewhere. Since these meters send readings via online, Wifi or other wise electronically no physical reading of meter each month is usually necessary.
As another poster stated majority if not all new construction multi-family have sub-metering systems and tenants do not have any say in who handles billing. If it's not Quadlogic will be another company but still building wide. Individual tenants have no say in matter, period. It's not like they can dump Quadlogic and open an account with ConEd for individual service.
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