The owner of the Broadmoor Apartments in Hamden has applied to submeter the building, one of only a handful around the state to do so.
Broadmoor Apartment Management wants to submeter the six-story, 83-unit apartment complex in order to charge residents for their individual energy use, rather than all tenants paying a flat rate regardless of their energy use.
The apartment complex would be the fourth building in the state to legally submeter, since the practice was illegal until 2013. Two apartment buildings in Hartford and one in New Haven also have asked to submeter their facilities.
None of these applicants are trying to use submetering to pay for a renewable energy system on the property, which was a main reason Gov. Dannel P. Malloy sought to change the submetering law. The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority still is deciding how exactly to regulate landlords with fuel cells, solar arrays, or wind turbines that submeter their tenants.
