In recent months there has been a noticeable increase of renovation and retrofitting activities in apartment buildings in the GTA. Most of these renovations are related to upgrades to promote energy conservation. Renovations include fixes to faulty plumbing and heating systems, installing smart sub-meters, and replacement of ageing balcony doors and windows for more energy efficient ones. While general repairs and renovations are long overdue in older buildings there are other newer buildings undergoing (more…)
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Smart Sub-meters . . . Getting It Right!
Posted in Above Guideline increase, Building Maintenance, Capital Expenditures, Conservation, Electricity, Energy Conservation, Environment, Greening, Hydro, Infrastructure, Lease Agreement, Politics, Retrofit, Smart meters, Sub-meters, Utilities, tagged Building Maintenance, Capital Expenditures, Electricity, Energy Conservation, Environment, Politics, Retrofit, Sub-meters, Utilities on September 8, 2009| 3 Comments »
By I. Aagaard, Guest Contributor
A recent article (Smart sub-meters) on the EYTG web site made references to an issue that’s been popping up recently: Smart Sub-Meters in apartment buildings.
I agree fundamentally with the notion of this “Pay Per Use” way of holding each of us responsible for our consumption of non-renewable resources, such as electricity. (more…)
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SMART SUB-METERS . . .
Posted in Above Guideline increase, Affordability, Annual Guideline Increase, Apartment Issues, Capital Expenditures, Electricity, Energy Conservation, Environment, Greening, Hydro, Lease Agreement, Ontario Energy Board, Retrofit, Smart meters, Sub-meters, Tenancy Agreement, Utilities, tagged Above Guideline increase, Capital Expenditures, Electricity, Energy Conservation, Environment, Residential Tenancies Act, Retrofit, Smart sub-meters, Sub-meters, Tenancy Agreement on August 29, 2009| 7 Comments »
The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) has issued a ‘Decision and Order’ that will allow landlords to install ‘smart sub-metering systems’ for individual rental units. Smart sub-meters’ are devices that can be installed in individual apartments to monitor a tenant’s use of energy thereby allowing individual billing.
(Refer to this link for more details: http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2009/cc/bgrd/backgroundfile-23859.pdf
The main reason behind this ‘Decision and Order’ is that landlords/ property owners have been installing ‘smart meters’ in residential and commercial complexes in the absence of regulations. Ostensibly the purpose of these ‘smart meters’ is to monitor the (more…)
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