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Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
Why does the electricity company know your flat size and your heating source?
Besides what others have said, they’d know the capabilities of the address when it’s built, at a minimum, as they’re responsible for providing the infrastructure to deliver power to it.
I really don’t get why you’re asking this - they need to know what a facility is capable of to manage and plan power delivery.
they need to know what a facility is capable of to manage and plan power delivery.
But that’s a single value measured in Ampere.
The size in square feet is something completely irrelevant to know.
And even the Ampere value is only relevant for the local provider that connects to your house, not for the company selling you the actual electric energy.
The company selling me electricity knows nothing about me but my electric meter ID.
Lighting load on new construction homes is calculated based on square footage.
Lighting load on new construction homes is calculated based on square footage.
That doesn’t even make sense as it treads someone just putting up a single 5W bulb the same as someone having an indoor hemp plantation or heavy machine shop in their basement.
cm0002@lemy.lol 14 hours ago
In most places in the US, basic home specs are public record and/or just floating around since the last time it was publicly listed for sale
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 14 hours ago
I bet you can look at the building permit and learn this stuff
cm0002@lemy.lol 14 hours ago
That too, but some jurisdictions put some guardrails for pulling full prior permits, when I wanted to pull all the historical permits for my house for my own records, I had to bring in some proof that I was either the owner, tenant or other interested party (like say a contractor who want to see the previous permits before doing their own work)
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
Wow. That idea is definitely 2American4me…
(I also just posted it in the respective community, as it fits perfectly there…)
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
In Germany, not only do they know all of that, but they come out every year to check it. This year, they showed up several days before they said they were going to, but when the guy walked in, he looked around, and then gave us a bunch of information about dealing with slum lords, lol.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
Are you perhaps confusing that with the heating meter checkers in appartment buildings? They actually need the living area for the billing and have a contract to do so with your
landslumlord, and thereby you.Regarding the slumlord: The magic word is generally “Mietminderung”, I think.