Not an easy, but rewarding way for housing companies!

Housing companies have been pursuing the idea of self-billing for heating costs for years. The EU energy efficiency directive and the announced CO2 tax make the topic topical. In addition, findings from self-billing companies promise a cost reduction for tenants. A report from Kulmbach. (by Udo Petzoldt)

BG in the news magazine Panorama

On Thursday, July 12th, 2019, the ARD news magazine broadcasted a report on the reading services and measurement service providers. The building cooperative Kulmbach und Umgebung eG and its board member Udo Petzoldt were also there.

We have sufficiently positioned ourselves with the reading services in recent years and, in our opinion, have taken the right steps with the establishment of HP Heizkosten Plattform GmbH. In the future, we will read the heating consumption data ourselves.

ab and thus reduce the costs for our tenants. From July this year, the HP heating costs platform will also be offered to external customers.

The news magazine Panorama picked this story. A 10-minute report was broadcasted on Thursday and once again shows the wrongs in this area.

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Bild-Zeitung also reports on the cartel

The following report was recently published in the largest German daily newspaper, the Bild newspaper. We reacted to the reading cartel last year by founding HP Heizkosten Plattform GmbH. In this article many grievances of the meter reading companies are presented to the reader again. A statement by our chairwoman of the Supervisory Board, Inge Aures, can also be found in this report. We are here once again confirmed in a very impressive way that we are on the right track with the creation of our own platform.