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title: "Payment Plan: Issues When Metering and Billing Residents"
description: Key issues when billing and metering residents on community heating schemes
image: https://blog.switch2.co.uk/hubfs/images/Blogs/payment-plan-final.gif
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# Payment Plan: Issues When Metering and Billing Residents

Kirsty Lambert

October 20, 2015

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When your heat network is ready to run, you’ll need to start recouping your costs. This is where a properly planned and well-executed metering and billing system is worth every penny of investment.

This infographic presentation provides a six-point plan to ensure bills are sent out on a regular basis, residents are only charged for the energy they use, and payments come in on time.

 

## From well-designed metering and billing, to effective maintenance and reporting, there's plenty you can do to ensure your heat network and scheme operate effectively.

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