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• Metering and billing Posted on 31 March 2025

  How heat metering cuts costs in 2025: updated insights on the cost effectiveness tool

  With energy costs still affecting households and businesses across the UK in 2025, the conversation around heat metering in communal heat networks has never been more relevant. The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations (HNR) and the associated Cost Effectiveness Tool (CET) continue to shape the decisions of heat network operators. However, recent changes in energy pricing and policy mean that it’s time to re-examine metering and its cost-saving potential for residents.

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• Metering and billing Posted on 31 March 2025

  Flat-rate charging vs heat metering: what’s best for residents in 2025?

  With the energy price cap rising once again, and growing pressure to meet net zero targets, heat network operators, across all sectors of the industry, are rethinking how they are billing their residents. One model under increasing scrutiny is flat rate charging, where residents pay a fixed fee, regardless of their consumption. But does this approach offer fairness and efficiency, or is there a better way?

  Our blog explores how metered consumption-based billing compares to flat rate charging and why more operators are making the switch to metering in 2025.

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• Metering and billing Posted on 8 July 2022

  Unmetered Series: Can heat meters pay for themselves?

  Payback times on the installation of heat meters has historically not been a driving factor in the decision to start metering heat networks. However, the current price of gas represents a unique opportunity to mitigate dramatic effects of the energy price rises and may be the only redeeming feature of the energy crisis – payback times have never been shorter. 

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• Metering and billing Posted on 21 June 2022

  Unmetered Series: Unmetered is unmanaged

  With the cost of energy, fuel, food and inflation affecting everyone across the country and the world, there have been fewer moments than ever before where actions can be taken that will make a real impact to people’s lives, especially to the lives of those in society who are feeling the strain more than others.

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• Community Heating Posted on 20 April 2022

  Combatting fuel poverty through heat metering

  Rising energy prices are a concern for many in the UK and around the globe at present. According to the latest BEIS statistics, in 2020, there were an estimated 13.2 per cent of households (3.16 million) in fuel poverty in England under the Low Income Low Energy Efficiency (LILEE) metric.

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• Metering and billing Posted on 7 December 2021

  How to plan your smart heat metering installation for unmetered heat networks

  What to do next if your unmetered heat network tests positive for final customer meters

  Hundreds of heat network operators must install final customer meters in unmetered properties – following positive cost effectiveness assessments as part of the Heat Network Metering and Billing Regulations.

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