Costs
The costs of metering include:
- the investment costs to purchase and to install meters, as well as
- the recurrent costs to read meters and to issue bills based on consumption instead of bills based on monthly flat fees.
While the cost of purchasing residential meters is low (in the range of US$20 per meter), the total life cycle costs of metering are higher. For example, retrofitting apartments in large buildings with meters for every apartment can involve major plumbing work and can be very costly.
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