Which statement about a Mastered Metered arrangement is accurate?

Which statement about a Mastered Metered arrangement is accurate?

• A. One meter covers the whole building; the owner pays the bill and folds cost into rent.
• B. Tenants pay their own utility bills directly
• C. The system relies on demand metering only
• D. It excludes any sub-metering

Answer: (A)

Mastered metered arrangements use a single building-wide meter to measure total energy use, with the property owner paying the utility bill and recovering those costs through rent charged to the tenants. This directly fits the idea that one meter covers the whole building and the owner handles the bill, folding the cost into rent. If tenants paid their own bills directly, that describes direct tenant billing or sub-metering rather than mastered metering. The system isn’t necessarily defined by relying only on demand metering; it compares total building usage to a rent-based allocation rather than focusing on peak demand charges. Also, saying it excludes any sub-metering isn’t universally true—some mastered setups still use sub-meters to allocate costs, but the essential feature is the single master meter with the owner paying and recovering costs via rent.

Mastered metered arrangements use a single building-wide meter to measure total energy use, with the property owner paying the utility bill and recovering those costs through rent charged to the tenants. This directly fits the idea that one meter covers the whole building and the owner handles the bill, folding the cost into rent. If tenants paid their own bills directly, that describes direct tenant billing or sub-metering rather than mastered metering. The system isn’t necessarily defined by relying only on demand metering; it compares total building usage to a rent-based allocation rather than focusing on peak demand charges. Also, saying it excludes any sub-metering isn’t universally true—some mastered setups still use sub-meters to allocate costs, but the essential feature is the single master meter with the owner paying and recovering costs via rent.