The Heat Network Metering and Billing Regulations—heat supplier and landlord obligations

Produced in partnership with Tom Bainbridge of Lux Nova Partners
Practice notes

The Heat Network Metering and Billing Regulations—heat supplier and landlord obligations

Produced in partnership with Tom Bainbridge of Lux Nova Partners

Practice notes
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The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014, SI 2014/3120, as amended (the Regulations) transpose parts of the EU Energy efficiency Directive 2012/27/EU, relating to final customer energy metering and the provision of billing information.

The Regulations were introduced to bring communal and district heating more in line with gas and electricity sectors where such matters are governed in detail, in order to:

  1. make consumers more aware of what they are being charged

  2. encourage more economical Use of heat and

  3. empower consumers to challenge their heat supplier on the performance of the heating system and to minimise inefficiencies

Note, following the UK’s departure from the EU, the Energy Efficiency Directive is not retained in UK law. However the final customer energy metering and provision of billing information requirements stemming from the Energy Efficiency Directive are assimilated into UK law through the Regulations. For more information on the status of EU law in the UK after Brexit, see Practice Notes: Assimilated law and Brexit—impact

Tom Bainbridge
Tom Bainbridge chambers

Founding Partner, Lux Nova Partners


Tom Bainbridge has been recognised as a “leading individual” in the legal directories for many years. He has been recommended by clients and praised for seeing the big picture, for his innovative thinking and his commerciality.
 
His experience includes advising on numerous projects in the clean energy sector that were world firsts in their day – including the world’s first carbon financed biomass refuelling of a power station, the EU’s leading carbon capture and storage project and the first project financed wind and solar farms in the Middle East.
 
He is a recognised thought leader in the decentralised energy sector, providing award winning structuring, commercial and regulatory advice. He continues to help shape the heat market through his work on major district heating projects, leading the Lux Nova team on the high-profile £320m HNIP work, drafting industry guidance and a suite of published standard contracts for the heat sector.
 
Tom continues to innovate on clean and decentralised energy and energy efficiency:
  • leading work on renewable energy PPAs, including developing ground-breaking renewable energy corporate PPAs demonstrating true ‘additionality’ for the property sector;
  • negotiating guaranteed energy performance contracts, helping to save clients millions of pounds on their energy bills;
  • innovating on some of the largest smart-grid, storage and EV charging projects in the UK.
 
He has also been a prominent author and speaker on energy and climate change topics over many years, has chaired and been involved in numerous professional bodies and has given evidence before Select Committees and the National Audit Office. 

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Landlord definition
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A person who grants a lease.

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