As in text. The cost for heating is calculated by housing agency/management and they said they would check and numbers and let me know the total cost. Since it's been pending for two years I want to know my unit consumption, so I can make some estimations. I understand that the rate per unit consumption will be different everywhere.
by umang_go
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i think only specialized companies which also install these things can read the consumption
The consumption is 96 units. However, there is a factor for the size of the heater and a general house meter reading to calculate that which you will only know once you got billed once.
However, if they’re taking more than 2 years, you don’t have to pay the extra costs anyways.
https://www.immobilienscout24.de/wissen/vermieten/frist-nebenkostenabrechnung.html
You don’t need any specialized equipment or formulas to calculate the cost. Rather, you need *information* that you don’t have and can’t get. It works as follows:
At the end of the billing cycle, the total heating cost for the entire building or block of buildings is determined. Then, part of the cost gets distributed according to apartment size, and the rest gets divided by the total number of heating units consumed in the entire installation (possibly adjusted by a factor to account for different meter types and/or different radiator types). Only then you have the cost per unit.
Since you neither know the total cost, nor the amount of heating used by other tenants in the building, you have no way of determining the cost of a unit. You can only get a very rough estimate by looking at the cost per unit in an old *Betriebskostenabrechnung*, from your own apartment or from a neighbor. But if the cost has changed significantly, or the average usage has been different (due to different weather, but also changes in behavior, or fluctuation of tenants), this year’s cost per unit can be very different than last year’s.
The consumption is based on the dimensionless number measured, the type and dimension of the radiator, the other radiators in the system and the consumption of the central heating.